


COMPILATION 



OF THE 



SCHOOL LAWS 



OF THE 



STATE OF) FLORIDA 



WITH THE 

EEGULATIONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF 
EDUCATION 

AND THE 

INSTRUCTIONS AND FORMS OF THE DEPART- 
MENT OF EDUCATION 



Compiled by 

W. N. SHEATS, 

Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



Authorized by Section 153, Revised General Statutes of Florida 



TALLAHASSEE, FLA. 
1921. 



T. J. APPLEYARD, PRINTER. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIS* 



COMPILATION 



OF THE 








OF THE 

STATE OF FLORIDA 

WITH THE 

EEGULATIONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF 
EDUCATION 

AND THE 

INSTRUCTIONS AND FORMS OF THE DEPART- 
MENT OF EDUCATION 



Compiled by 

W. N. SHEATS, 

Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



Authorized by Section 153, Revised General Statutes of Florida 



TALLAHASSEE, FLA. 
1921. 



T. J. APPLEYARD, PRINTER, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA 






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RiCSJVED 

AUG181922 

POCUMENTS DIVISION 



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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 

(Ex-Officio.) 



HON. CAEY A. HAEDEE, Governor, President. 

HON. H. CLAY CRAWFORD, Secretary of State 

HON. RIVERS H. BTJFORD, Attorney General. 

HON. J. C. LUNING, State Treasurer. 

HON. W. N. SHEATS, State Superintendent of PuUic 
Instruction. 



Constitution of Florida. 



ARTICLE XII. 



EDUCATION. 



Section 1. The Legislature shall provide for a uniform 
system of public free schools, and shall provide for the 
liberal maintenance of the same. 

Sec. 2. There shall be a Superintendent of Public In- 
struction, whose duties shall be prescribed by law, and 
whose term of office shall be for four years and until the 
election and qualification of his successor. 

Sec. 3. The Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney- 
General, State Treasurer, and State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction shall constitute a body corporate, to 
be known as the State Board of Education of Florida, of 
which the Governor shall be President, and the Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction Secretary. This Board shall 
have power to remove any subordinate school officer for 
cause, upon notice to the incumbent ; and shall have the 
management and investment of all State School Funds 
under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and 
such supervision of schools of higher grades as the law 
shall provide. 

Sec. 4. The State School Fund, the interest of which 
shall be exclusively applied to the support and mainte- 
nance of public free schools, shall be derived from the 
following sources : 

The proceeds of all lands that have been or may here- 
after be granted to the State by the United States for 
public school purposes. 

Donations to the State when the purpose is not speci- 
fied. 

Appropriations by the State. 

The proceeds of escheated property or forfeitures. 

Twenty-five per cent, of the sales of public lands which 
are now or may hereafter be owned by the State. 

See. 5. The principal of the State School Fund shall 
remain sacred and inviolate. 



Uniform 

system. 



State Super- 
intendent. 



State Board 
of Education. 



Powers. 



State School 
Fund. 



Principal 
inviolate. 



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state one- 
mill tax. 



Apportion- 
ment of. 



County 

levy. 

As amended 

in 1904 and 

1918. 



County 
Scliool Fund. 



School 
districts. 



District 
school tax. 



Expenditure 
of. 



Sec. 6. A special tax of one mill on the dollar of all 
taxable property in the State, in addition to the other 
means provided, shall be levied and apportioned annually 
for the support and maintenance of public free schools. 

See. 7. Provision shall be made by law for the appor- 
tionment and distribution of the interest on the State 
School Fund, and all other means provided, including the 
special tax, for the support and maintenance of public 
free schools among the several counties of the State in 
proportion to the average attendance upon schools in the 
saicl counties respectively. (As amended, 1894.) 

Sec. 8. Each county shall be required to assess and 
collect annually for the support of public free schools 
therein, a tax of not less than three (3) mills, nor more 
than ten (10) mills on the dollar, of all taxable property 
in the same. 

Sec. 9. The County School Fund shall consist, in ad- 
dition to the tax provided for in section eight of this 
Article, of the proportion of the interest of the State 
School Fund and of the one-mill State tax apportioned 
to the county; *the net proceeds of all fines collected 
under the penal laws of the State within the county; all 
capitation taxes collected within the county; and shall 
be disbursed bj^ the County Board of Public Instruction 
solely for the maintenance and support of public free 
schools. 

Sec. 10. The Legislature may provide for the division 
of any county or counties into convenient school districts ; 
and for the election bi-ennially of three school trustees, 
who shall hold their office for two years, and who shall 
have the supervision of all the schools within the dis- 
trict ; and for the levying and collection of a district 
school tax, for the exclusive use of public free schools 
within the district, whenever a majority of the qualified 
electors thereof shall pay a tax on real or personal prop- 
erty shall vote in favor of such levy; Provided, That any 
tax authorized by this section shall not exceed three mills 
on the dollar in any one year on the taxable property of 
the district. 

Sec. 11. Any incorporated town or city may consti- 
tute a School District. The Fund raised by section ten 
may be expended in the district where levied for building 

(*Fines and forfeitures given to general county fund impliedly by 
amendment to Article XVI. Section 9, adopted at general election in 

1894.) 



or repairing school houses, for the purchase of school 
libraries and text books, for salaries of teachers, or for 
other educational purposes, so that the distribution among 
all the schools of the district be equitable. 

Sec. 12. White and colored children shall not be taught 
in the same school, but impartial provision shall be made 
for both. 

Sec. 13. No law shall be enacted authorizing the diver- 
sion or the lending of any county or district school funds, 
or the appropriation of any part of the permanent or 
available school fund to any other than school purposes ; 
nor shall the same, or any part thereof, be appropriated 
to or used for the support of any sectarian school. 

Sec. 14. The Legislature at its first session shall pro- 
vide for the establishment, maintenance and management 
of such Normal Schools, not to exceed two, as the inter- 
ests of public education may demand. 

Sec. 15. The compensation of all county school officers 
shall be paid from the school fund of the respective coun- 
ties, and all other county officers receiving stated salaries 
shall be paid from the general funds of their respective 
counties. 

Sec. 16. (Proposed section defeated at general election 
of 1908.) 

Sec. 17. The Legislature may provide for Special Tax 
School Districts, to issue bonds for the exclusive use of 
public free schools within any such Special Tax School 
District, whenever a majority of the qualified electors 
thereof, who are freeholders, shall vote in favor of the 
issuance of such bonds. 

Whenever any such Special Tax School District has 
voted in favor of the issuance of such bonds, a tax not to 
exceed five mills on the dollar, in any one year, on the 
taxable property within the district voting for the issue 
of bonds shall be levied in accordance with the law pro- 
viding for the levying of taxes, to become a fund for the 
payment of the interest and redemption of such bonds. 



Races 
separated. 



School funds 

not 

divertible. 



Forbidden 

sectarian 

schools. 



Normal 
schools. 



Pay of school 

officers. 



District 
bonds and 

(Added to 
Article at 
general elec- 
tion 1912.) 
Freeholders 
may vote. 



Tax limited 
to five mills. 



STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 
INSTRUCTION. 



state Super- 
intendent an 
administra- 
tire officer. 



How 
chosen. 



Duties and 
powers. 



To make 
reports. 



AETICLE IV. 

Sec. 20. The governor shall be assisted b}- adminis- 
trative officers as follows : A secretary of state, attoruey- 
general,_ comptroller, treasurer, superintendent of public 
instruction, and commissioner of agriculture, who shall 
be elected at the same time as the governor, and shall 
hold their offices for the same term; Provided, That the 
first election of such officers shall be had at the time of 
voting for governor A. D. 1888. 

Sec. 25. The Superintendent of Public Instruction 
shall have supervision of all matters pertaining to public 
instruction; the supervision of State buildings devoted 
to educational purposes, and perform such other duties 
as the Legislature may provide by law. 

Sec. 27. * * (He) shall make a full report of his 
official acts, of the receipts and expenditures of his off'ice, 
and of the requirements of the same, to the Governor at 
the beginning of each regular session of the Legislature, 
or whenever the Governor shall require it. Such - * 
(report) shall be laid before the Legislature by the Gov- 
ernor at the beginning of each regular session thereof. 
Either house of the Legislature may at any time call upon 
"^ '•' (him) for information required by it. 



SCHOOL LAWS 



OF THE 



State of Florida 



' COMPILED 

FROM THE REVISED GENERAL STATUTES AND 
THE ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE 
OF 1919 AND 1921. 



GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR OOMMON SCHOOLS 
AND COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS. 

Note. — Numbers in parentheses refer to corresponding sec- 
tions in tlie Revised General Statutes. 

Section 1. (427) Uniform System of Piiblic Instruction, cb. 3872, 
School Age. — There shall be established and mamtamed a ^^^^ ■^^^^^ 
uniform system of public instruction free to all the youth 
residing in the State between the ages of six and twenty- 
one years, as far as the funds will admit, as hereinafter 
provided. 

Sec. 2. (428) School Year. — The school year for all cii. 4i96, 
public schools shall begin on the first day of July and i^^f 5! ^^^^' 
end with the last day of the following June, and all re- 
ports, financial and otherwise, to the State department 
shall embrace such business and matters only as take 
place within the limits of the school year thus defined. 

Sec. 3. (429) V/hen Schools May Begin. — No school in ib., sec. 4. 
any county shall begin before July 1st of the school year 
to which that term of school belongs and for Avhich the 
apportionment was made. 

Sec. 4. (430) Opening and Closing. — The time for open- j^,^ g^^. o. 
ing public schools for each county shall be determined by 
the county board of public instruction: Provided, That 
all schools must begin so as to close before the last day 
of June. 



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Ch. 4195, 
Acts 1893, 
Sec. 1. 



Sec. 5. (431) School Day, Month, Term and Year.— A 

school day shall comprise not less than five hours nor 
more than six hours, exclusive of recesses. The time to 
be fixed by the Board of Public Instruction of the county. 

A school month shall consist of twenty days, exclusive 
of the first and last days of the week. 

A school term contains four school months. 

The school year contains two terms. 

Sec. 6. (432) Vacation and Holidays. — All public 
schools shall observe the period from December 24 to 
January 1, both days inclusive, as a vacation, and Inde- 
pendence day and Thanksg-iving day as holidays, and no 
one of these days shall be counted as taught in a teacher's 
monthlj" report. 

Sec. 7. (433) Duty of State Treasurer. — The treasurer 
of the Board of Education shall keep an account with the 
several counties, in which he shall credit each county 
with its proportion of its income of the common school 
fund, and of the fund raised by the one mill tax author- 
ized by the Constitution, and shall charge each with the 
amount receipted for by the treasurers of the Boards of 
Public Instruction. 

U3.. Sec. 40. Sec. 8 (434) Duty of Tax Collector.— The several tax 
collectors shall receive only the current funds of the 
United States in payment for all taxes provided for in 
this article, except such certificates of indebtedness as 
may be issued by the County Boards of Public Instruc- 
tion, which shall be receivable for countv school taxes. 



Ch. 4292, 
Acts 1901, 
Sees. 1 and 
3, amending 
Sec. 256, 
Rev. Stats. 
1892. 



Ch. 3872, 
Acts 1889, 
Sec. 39. 



lb.. Sec. 43. 
revised. 



Ch. 4682. 
Acts 1899, 
Sees. 1 and 
2, Revised. 



Sec. 9. (435) To Whom School Funds to be Paid.— 

Every officer having moneys which by law go to the 
State school fund shall pay the same to the State Treas- 
urer, and every officer having moneys which by law go 
to the countj^ school fund shall paj^ the same to the de- 
pository legally entitled to receive the same. 

Sec. 10. (436) Purchase of Real Estate for Educational 
Purposes. — The Board of County Commissioners of any 
county in this State upon the request of the Board of 
Public Instruction in such county, after an affirmative 
vote of the qualified voters who are taxpayers therein 
and have paid all taxes due by them for two years next 
and preceding said election in any special tax school dis- 
trict, or county, are hereby authorized to contract debts 



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for the purchase of real estate, to be used for educational 
purposes for the erection of school buildings and to pay 
such debts out of the current income of any year, or out 
of the income of succeeding years, and are authorized to 
borrow money, from time to time, as occasion may re- 
quire to discharge any debt or liability incurred for the 
purchase of real estate for such purpose, which debt shall 
be a charge or lien only upon such special tax school dis- 
trict or county as the case may be : Provided, That the 
necessary expenses of maintaining the schools in any 
county during any year shall constitute the first claim 
against the school fund of that year. 

Sec. 11. (437) Attendance by Youth of One County of 2cts^!sl9 
School in Another.- — When it is more convenient for sec. 35" ' 
youth residing in one county to attend school in an ad- 
joining county, they may do so by the concurrence of the 
superintendents of public instruction of the two counties. 
The proportion of school money for each youth shall be 
transferred by requisition of the county superintendent . 
of public instruction of the county in which the youth 
resides, upon the treasurer of the school funds of that 
county to the treasurer of the school funds of the county 
in which the school is located. 

Sec. 12. Attendance of Youth in Another State. — That cii. 8546, 
the Board of Public Instruction for all counties of the gg*.^ i^'-^^' 
State of Florida bordering on the States of Alabama and 
Georgia, in this State, is hereby authorized and empow- 
ered to make arrangements with the public school author- ' 
ities of an adjoining county or counties in an adjoining 
State for the entrance and instruction in the public 
schools of such adjoining county or counties of pupils 
from all counties of the State of Florida bordering on 
the States of Alabama and Georgia in this State and to 
pay such sums for the instruction of such pupils as such 
Board of Public Instruction may deem proper and as may 
be agreed to by the school authorities of such other State, 
and, if said Board deems it necessary, it may arrange for 
the transportation of such pupils to and from school. 

Sec. 13. (438) Forfeiture by County of School Funds.— ib. see. 36. 
Any county or school district neglecting to establish and 
maintain such school or schools as the available funds will 
support, shall forfeit its proportion of the common school 
fund during such neglect, and in that case all moneys so 



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Ch. 4196, 
Acts 1893, 
Sec. 3, as 
amended by 
Ch. 5386, 
Acts 1905. 



Ch. 3872, 
Acts 1889, 
Sec. 2 re- 
vised. 



Ch. 3872, 
Acts 1889, 
Sec. 3. 



lb., Sec. 5. 



lb.. Sec. 6. 



lb.. Sec. 7. 



lb. Sec. 8. 



forfeited shall be apportioned among the several coun- 
ties at the next annual apportionment. 

Sec. 14. (439) Forfeiture by School of School Funds. — 

Any public school in the county failing to complete its 
public term before the termination of the school year, 
shall, if such lost time of such term be not made up within 
the next school year thereafter, forfeit the proportion of 
its financial apportionment not used by neglecting or 
failing to maintain a school for the full term of school in 
that county, and in that case all moneys so forfeited 
shall be apportioned among the several schools of the 
county at the next annual apportionment. 

Sec. 15. (440) Officers. — The officers of the department 
of public instruction shall be a State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction, a State Board of Education, a board 
of public instruction for each county, a superintendent of 
public instruction for each count}', local school sujDervis- . 
ors and trustees. 

Sec. 16. (441) Board of Public Instruction.— A board of 
public instruction shall consist of not more than three 
members; no two of whom shall reside in the same dis- 
trict. 

Sec. 17. (442) Regulations. — Terms and Removal of 

Officers. — All such officers who shall hold their offices by 
statutes shall conform to the regulations of the depart- 
ment of public instruction. 

Sec. 18. (443) No Officer to Vote on His Own Com- 
pensation. — No officer shall vote on a question tixing his 
own compensation. 

Sec. 19. (444) Majority a Quorum. — A majority of any 
educational board shall constitute a quorum for the trans- 
action of business. 

Sec. 20. (445) Certain Ofiioers to Qualify and Give 
Bond. Disposition of Moneys and Property. — Every 
school officer who shall be elected or appointed under 
statutory provisions is required : 

First. — Before entering upon the duties of his office, 
and within ten days after receiving notice of his appoint- 
ment, to subscribe to an acceptance of the appointment 
and to pledge that he will faithfully perform the duties 



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of the position, and to forward the same with his post- 
office address to the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction. 

Second. — Before receiving any school moneys or prop- 
erty of any kind, for safe keeping or disbursement, to give 
bond with two good sureties, the bonds to be fixed and 
approved by the board of public instruction for the 
county, the original to be filed in the office of the clerk 
of the circuit court, and a certified copy to be held by 
the officer giving the security to be produced when re- 
quired. 

Third. — Any officer in charge of. school moneys, or 
property to be so disbursed, shall satisfy himself that the 
officer to whom he issues it has given bond as aforesaid, 
or be personally liable for any loss in consequence of such 
neglect. ^ 

Sec. 21. (446) Officer to Turn Over Moneys and Prop- ib. see. s 
erty to Successor.— Every office^ shall turn over to his 
successor in office, on retiring, all books, papers, docu- 
ments, funds, moneys and property of whatever kind, 
which he may have acquired, received and held by virtue 
of his oft'ice, and take full receipt for them of his suc- 
cessor. 



Sec. 22. (5866) White Children and Negro Children 
Are Not To Be Taught in Same School. — It shall be a 
penal offense for any individual, body of individuals, cor- 
poration or association to conduct within this State any 
school of any grade, public, private or parochial, wherein 
white persons and negroes shall be instructed or boarded 
within the same building, or taught in the same class, or 
at the same time by the same teachers. Any person or 
persons violating the provisions of this section by patron- 
izing or teaching in such school shall be fined in a sum 
not less than one hundred and fifty dollars nor more than 
five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than three 
months, nor more than six months for every such offense. 

Sec. 23. (5870) Unlawful for White Teachers to Teach 
Negro School and for Negro Teachers to Teach in White 
Schools. — It shall be unlawful in this State for white 
teachers to teach negroes in negro schools, and for negro 
teachei's to teach in white schools. Any person or per- 



ch. 4335 
Acts 1895. 
Sees. 1 and 



Ch. 6490. 
Aets 1913, 
Sees. 1 and 
2, eonsoli- 
dated. 



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sons violating the provisions of this section shall be pun- 
ished by a fine not to exceed five hundred ($500.00) dol- 
lars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 
six (6) mouths. 



ch. 3724, Sec. 24. (1568) Bonds Required by Gotiiity Officers. — 

Sec*^ i^^"*' Each of the county officers of whom a bond is or shall be 
required by law, shall, before he is commissioned, give 
bond, with not less than two securities, or a surety com- 
pany as hereinafter specified, to the Governor of the State 
of Florida and his successors in office, conditioned for the 
faithful performance of the duties of his office, which 
shall be approved by the Board of County Commissioners 
and Comptroller, and be filed with the Secretary of State, 
lb. See. 7 Sec. 25. (1570) Bond of County Superintendent. — The 

3S44f\cts dountj^ * * * superintendent of public instruction, 
18S9. * * * shall * give a bond in the sum of one thou- 

sand dollars. 
Ch. 6477, Sec. 26. (1571) * * * Members of School Board 

lecf i!^"*"^' to Give Bond. — Each and every * * * member of 
the board of public instruction of the several counties, of 
the State of Florida, elected or appointed to such office, 
before he is commissioned, shall be required to give a 
good and suft'icient bond with not less than two sureties, 
or a surety company duly authorized under the laws of 
the State of Florida, in the sum of two thousand dollars 
($2,000), conditioned for the faithful performance of the 
duties of his office, which bond shall be approved by the 
board of county commissioners and the Comptroller of 
the State of Florida. The premium of the bonds given 
with surety companies as sureties shall be paid out of the 
county treasury or the county school fund as the case 
mav be. 



THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 
INSTRUCTION. 

Ch. 3872, Sec. 27. (152) To Have Charge of All Matters Pertain- 

icts "^1889. i^^ to Public Schools. — The State Superintendent of Pub- 
lic Instruction shall have the oversight, charge and man- 
agement of all matters pertaining to public schools, school 
buildings and grounds. 



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Sec. 28. (153) Duties. — It is his duty and he is hereby ib., see. i2„ 
empowered : 

First. — To prepare and cause to be printed and dis- 
tributed gratuitously to boards of public instruction, and 
other officers and teachers, as many copies of the school 
laws, and such forms, instruments, instructions, regula- 
tions and decisions as he may judge necessary for their 
use. 

Second. — To call conventions of county superintendents 
of public instruction, and other officers, for obtaining and 
imparting information on the practical workings of the 
school system, and the means of promoting its efficiency 
and usefulness. 

Third. — To assemble teachers in institutes and employ 
competent instructors to impart information on improved 
methods of teaching and conducting schools, and other 
relevant matters. 

Fourth. — To apportion the interest on the common 
school fund and the fund raised hy the one-mill State tax 
authorized by Section 6 of Article XII, of the Constitu- 
tion, among the several counties of the State in propor- 
tion to the average attendance upon schools in the said 
counties respectively of children residing therein between 
the ages of six (6) and twenty-one (21) years. 

Fifth. — To make such apportionments as may in his 
judgment be right and just, when the census and returns 
on which the apportionments should be made are mani- 
festly defective or have not been received by him. j 

Sixth. — To entertain and decide upon appeals and ques- 
tions arising under the law, or refer such to the Board of 
Education for decision. 

Sev^th. — To prescribe rules and regulations for the 
management of the department of public instruction. 

'Eighth. — To file and preserve certified copies of the 
monthly lists of persons who have paid their poll taxes, Acts ''Sg, 
in his office as a part of the public records, and furnish ^^^- ^ 
copies thereof when requested by citizens of this State. 

Sec. 29. (154) To Inspect Institntions of Higher Learn- ch 5384 
ing. — That the Superintendent of Public Instruction is 4cts i9oK 
hereby directed and it is made his duty to make an in- ^*^*^' ^^' 



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spection of the University of Florida, Florida State Col- 
lege for Women, Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, 
and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for 
Negroes, once in each month and to make report thereof 
in writing to the Governor and a duplicate annual report 
embodying the results of his monthly reports, one to the 
Governor and one to be filed with the Comptroller. 

Sec. 30. (155) Seal. — He shall have a seal for his office, 
with v,diich in connection with" his own signature, to au- 
thenticate copies of decisions, acts, or documents, which 
copies so authenticated shall be of the same force as the 
originals. 

Const. 1885, Sec. 31. (156) Residence and Office. — He shall reside at 
Sec' io' ^^6 seat of government of this State, and shall keep his 
office in a room in the capitol. 



Ch. 1686. 
Acts 1869. 
Sec. 12. 



STATE BOASD OF EDUCATION. 



Ch. 3872. 
Acts 1889, 
Sec. 9. 



lb.. Sec. 10. 



Sec. 32. (601) State Board of Education.— The State 
Board of Education shall consist of the Governor, the 
Secretary of State, the Attorney-General, the State Treas- 
urer and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
The Governor shall be the president, the State Treasurer 
shall be the treasurer, and the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction the secretary of said board. Said 
board is a body corporate with full power to perform all 
corporate acts for educational purposes. 

Sec. 33. (602) Powers and Duties of State Board.— The 

State Board of Education are directed and empowered: 
First. — To obtain possession of and take charge, over- 
sight and management of all lands granted to or held by 
the State for educational purposes, and to fix the terms 
of sale, rental or use of such lands, and to do whatever 
may be necessary to preserve them from trespass or ill- 
jury, and for their improvement. 

Second. — To have the direction and management, and 
provide for the safe keeping and expenditure of all the 
educational funds of the State, with due regard to the 
highest interests of education. 



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Third. — To entertain and decide upon questions and 
appeals referred to them by the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction on any matter of difference or dispute 
arising- under the operation of law, and to prescribe the 
manner of making appeals and conducting arbitrations. 

Fourth. — To remove any subordinate officer in the de- 
partment for incompetency, neglect of duty or other cause 
which would disqualify a person for the appointment. 

Fifth. — To keep in vicM^ the establishment of schools 
on a broad and liberal basis, the object of Avhich shall be 
to impart instruction to youth in the professions of teach- 
ing, in the knowledge of the natural sciences, the theory 
and practice of agriculture, horticulture, mining engineer- 
ing aud the mechanic arts, in the ancient and modern 
languages, in the higher range of mathematics, litera- 
ture, and in the useful and ornamental branches not 
taught in common schools. 

Sixth. — To co-operate with the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction in the management of the department, 
and in the general diffusion of knowledge in the State. 

Sec. 34. (603) Lands Not To Be Sold on Credit.— Credit ch. 1490, 
shall not be allowed for the purchase mone}^ on the sale fgcf 1.^^^ ' 
of any of the school or seminary lands of this State, but 
every purchaser of such lands shall, at the time of pur- 
chase, make complete payment therefor. 

Sec. 35. (604) Board to Provide Teacher-Training De- cb. esso, 
partment in High Schools.— The State Board of Educa- i^^^ i?^^"* 
tion shall provide a Teacher-Training Department in one 
high school in each county of the State under such rules 
and regulations as shall be adopted by said State Board 
of Education ; provided, that such high school shall have 
not less than ten pupils ready and prepared for and who 
will take the teacher-training course of study. 

Sec. 36. (605) Appropriation to Each Teacher-Training 
Department; Proviso. — The State Board of Education 
shall appropriate to each Teacher-Training Department 
the sum of five hundred dollars, provided the county 
board of public instruction appropriates an equal amount 
or more to secure a competent teacher, all of whose time 
shall be devoted to the Teacher-Training Department. 

2 — S. Laws 



lb., Sec. 2. 



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ch. 5384, _ Sec. 37. (606) Property Vested in State Board of Edu- 
Sec.^ 2. '^' cation. — That all and singular all the lands, tenements 
and hereditaments, estate and property, 'real, personal 
and mixed, including bonds, funds, moneys and invest- 
ments, and the rents, issues and profits thereof, had, held 
or possessed by The Florida Agricultural College (now 
officially designated and known as the "University of 
Florida") located at Lake City, the West Florida Sem- 
inary (now designated and known as The Florida State 
College) located at Tallahassee, The White Normal School 
located at DeFuniak Springs, The East Florida Seminary 
located at Gainesville, The South Florida College located 
at Bartow, and The Florida Agricultural Institute located 
in Osceola County, or any of them, or to which said in- 
stitutions or any of them might or could have, claim, or 
be in any way or manner entitled to either in esse or in 
futuro and from any source whatsoever, be and the same 
are hereby declared forfeit and to revert to the State of 
Florida, and upon the passage and approval of this Act, 
to vest absolutely in the State Board of Education in fee 
simple absolute, in trust, nevertheless, for the uses and 
purposes hereinafter provided for herein. 

lb., Sec. 26. Sec. 38. (607) Property Transferred to State Board of 
Education for Use of the University of Florida.— That all 
the bonds, moneys, properties and assets belonging to the 
University of Florida, abolished by Section 1, Chapter 
5384, Acts 1905, or held in any way or manner for its 
benefit, or which it might or could be entitled to, are 
directed to and hereby set apart and appropriate exclu- 
sively to the establishment, maintenance and support of 
the University be transferred and conveyed under the 
provisions hereof to the State of Florida, and all and 
singular the rents, revenues, issues and profits thereof, 
and the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station estab- 
lished as a department of the University of Florida, shall 
be and remain a Department of the University of Florida, 
together with all the rents, benefits, donations and emolu- 
ments that may accrue therefrom, or under the act of 
Congress commonly known as the ' ' Hatch Act, ' ' or under 
the act of Congress commonly known as the "Morrill 
Act" in so far as the same or so much thereof can be used 
and appropriated for the benefits of said institution by 
the provisions of said acts, and that the provisions of 
Chapter 3564, Acts of 1885, and Section 7 of Chapter 



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1776, Acts of 1870, are made applicable hereto in so far 
as the same are or can be made effective, and all estate, 
right, property, claim, emoluments and the rents and is- 
sues thereof or any substitutions thereof, and all claims 
and demands arising or that may or can arise thereunder 
or any act of Congress in that regard are hereby pre- 
served, maintained and transferred to the State Board of 
Education for the use and benefit of the University of 
Florida. 

Sec. 39. (608) Property Held Which May Be Applied ib., see. 28. 
to Higher Education To Be Apportioned for Support of 
Certain Institutions. — All other funds, appropriations and 
property of every nature and description which may come 
to the State of Florida, or the hands or control of the 
State Board of Education, for such purpose, or which 
may lawfully be applied to the promotion and advance- 
ment of schools of higher education in this State, includ- 
ing the assets of said abolished institutions not otherwise 
disposed of, shall be held and appropriated by the State 
Board of Education in conjunction with the Board of 
Control for the maintenance and support of the said four 
respective institutions, equally and ratably, in proportion 
as the needs of the said respective institutions may from 
time to time require the same, in the judgment of the 
said boards ; provided, that what is known as the seminary 
fund shall be subject to the control, management and in- 
vestment of the State Board of Education as a fund for 
the benefit of the Florida State College for Women and 
the University of Florida, the interest arising from which 
shall be used and appropriated for the maintenance and 
support of said two institutions, in equal proportion. 

Sec. 40. (609) Funds Provided by the United States.— ib. sec. 29. 
That the State Board of Education, through its presi- 
dent, is hereby authorized and empowered to sign all 
vouchers for all moneys coming to said institutions cre- 
ated and maintained by this act from the United States, 
or any fund provided by the United States and which 
shall be paid by it to the State for the benefit of the said 
institutions, and shall deposit the same with the treasurer 
of the State of Florida. 

Sec. 41. (610) State Treasurer to Receive and Disburse ib., see. 32. 
Certain Funds.— The treasurer of the State of Florida 
shall receive and pay out all moneys and funds provided 



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for in this act, or which shall come to the hands or control 
of the State Board of Education in any way or manner 
for the purposes thereof, and he shall keep all said moneys 
so received in a separate fund, and classify' the same as 
provided herein, or by any law of the United States re- 
lating to any portion thereof, of which he shall render an 
annual report to the Governor of the State of Florida, 
showing in detail the amounts received and from what 
funds and sources, and expenditures, when paid and to 
whom, and no moneys shall be paid out by him except 
upon a warrant drawn by the Comptroller upon the funds 
in his hands, a duplicate voucher from the Board of Con- 
trol showing the purposes of such expenditures, which 
shall be filed with him. 



COUNTY BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

Ch. 4196, Sec. 42. (447) County Boards To Be Corporations. — 

and^ Ch^^' Each board of public instruction is constituted a body 
lisl' sec^ corporate by the name of "The Board of Public Instruc- 

13. ' " ' tion for the County of , State of Florida," 

and in that name may acquire and hold real and personal 
property, receive bequests and donations, and perform 
other corporate acts for educational purposes. 

Ch 387-^ ^®*^- ^^- (448) Organization a Primary Duty. — Each 

Acts 1889, board before proceeding to anv other business, shall com- 

Sec 18. * . 

plete its own organization. The chairman and secretary 
shall then make and sign two copies of the proceedings 
of organization, and annex their affidavits to each that 
the same is a correct and true copy of the original. They 
shall file one copy in the oi^'ice of the clerk of the circuit 
court of the county, to be by him recorded in the record 
of deeds, and file the other copy in the office of the State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

lb Sec 14 Sec. 44. (449) Title to County School Property.— The 
title to the school property of the county shall be vested 
^ in them and their successors in office, except in such 
special tax school districts as provided for. 



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Sec. 45. (450) Compensation of Members of County 

Board. — The members of the various countj^ school boards 
sliall be paid from tlie county scliool fund for their serv- 
ices, four dollars per day, for each day's service, and ten 
cents per mile for every mile actually travelled in going 
to and from the county court house by the nearest prac- 
ticable route. 

Sec. 46. Compensation in Counties of 37,000, Etc. — The 

members of the various county school boards in counties 
having a population of not less than thirty-seven thou- 
sand, and not more than fifty thousand persons, accord- 
ing to the census taken by this State in 1915, shall be 
paid from the county school funds for their services, an 
annual salary of six hundred dollars ($600.00) each, pay- 
able in monthly installments. 

Sec. 47. Compensation in Counties Between 37,000 and 
40,000. — The members of the various county school boards 
in this State in counties having a population of more than 
thirty-seven thousand people and not more than forty 
thousand people, according to the census taken in this 
State in 1915, shall be paid from the county school funds 
for their services in lieu of all other compensation, eight 
hundred dollars per year, payable in monthly install- 
ments. 

Sec. 48. Compensation When Over 50,000. — The mem- 
bers of the various county school boards in counties hav- 
ing a population of not less than fifty thousand and not 
more than one hundred and fifty thousand, according to 
the Federal census taken in 1920, shall be paid from the 
county school funds for their services, an annual salary 
of six hundred dollars ($600.00) each, payable in monthly 
installments. 

Sec. 49. (451) Salaries of County Superintendents. — 

That the salaries of county superintendents of public in- 
struction be based upon the total ai^m^al receipts of each 
county, for school purposes, including special school dis- 
trict taxes, and excepting borrowed\ money, as follows: 
In counties where the receipts are le^s than $14,000, the 
salary shall be not less than $50 per month ; in counties 
where the receipts are more than $14,000 and less than 
$20,000, the salary shall be not less than $75 per month; 
in counties where the receipts are more than $20,000 and 



Ch. 4567, 
Acts 1897, 
Sec 1, 
amending 
Ch. 4195, 
Acts 1893, 
Sec. 5, Ch. 
5656. Acts 
1907, Sec. 1, 
amending 
Sec. 344, 
Gen. St. 

Ch. 7882, 
Acts of 
1919. 



Chap. 8545, 
Sec. 1, 
Acts 1921. 



Chap. 8495, 
Sec. 1, 
Acts 1921 



Ch. 5658, 
Acts 1907, 
Sec. 1. 



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less than $40,000, the salary shall be not less than $100 
per month ; in counties where the receipts are more than 
$40,000 and less than $70,000, the salary- shall be not less 
than $125 per month ; in counties where the receipts are 
more than $70,000 and less than $100,000, the salary shall 
be not less than $150 per month ; in counties where the 
receipts are more than $100,000 and less than $120,000, 
the salary shall be not less than $175 per month ; in coun- 
ties where the receipts are more than $120,000 and less 
than $200,000, the salary shall be not less than $200 per 
month. 

ch. 8545. Sec. 50. Pay of County Superintendents. — That in coun- 

Acts 19-^1 ^^^^ mentioned in Section 1 (Chap. 8495) of this Act [with 
population between 37.000 and 40,000], the several Super- 
intendents of Public Instruction shall be paid from the 
county school fund for their services in lieu of all other" 
compensation, two thousand seven hundred dollars each, 
per year, payable in monthly installments. 

Ch. 3872, Sec. 51. (452) Secretary of County Board. — The county 

Acts 1S89, superintendent of public instruction shall be the secretary 
of the board. 

lb.. Sec. IT. Sec. 52. (453) Treasurer of. — The county depositories 
of the several counties shall be and the same are hereby 
constituted the treasurers of the school funds in their re- 
spective counties. 

lb. Sec. 20. Sec. 53. (454) Duties of Board of Public Instruction. — 

Each board of public instruction is directed : 

First. — To obtain possession of, accept and hold, under 
proper title, as a corporation, all property possessed, ac- 
quired or held by the county for educational purposes, 
and to manage and dispose of the same for the best in- 
terest of education. Provided, That nothing in this act 
shall be so construed as to prevent any special tax school 
district from holding school property that it has, or may 
hereafter acquire, for school purposes, or prevent such 
districts from receiving their portions of money set apart 
for school purposes. 

Second. — To locate and maintain schools in every local- 
ity in the county where they may be needed, to accommo- 
date, as far as practicable, all the youth between the ages 



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of six and twenty-one years, during not less than four 
months in each year. 

Third. — To appoint one supervisor for each school on 
the recommendation of the patrons, whose duty it shall 
be to supervise the work of the school and to report to 
the county superintendent of public instruction monthly 
the result of his observations. 

Fourth. — To select and provide a site for each school 
house of not less than one-half acre of ground in the rural 
districts, and as nearly that amount as is practicable in 
the villages or cities. The situation to be dry, airy, health- 
ful and pleasant, also reasonably central and convenient 
of access for all who should attend the school. 

Fifth. — To do whatever is necessary with regard to 
purchasing or renting school sites and premises, con- 
structing, repairing, furnishing, warming,- ventilating, 
keeping in order or improving the school houses, out 
buildings,' fences, land and movable property, procuring 
proper apparatus for the schools, grading and classifying 
the pupils, and providing separate schools for the differ- 
ent classes in such a manner as will secure the largest 
attendance of pupils, promote the harmou}' and advance- 
ment of the school, and establishing, when required by 
the patrons, schools of higher grades of instruction where 
the advancement and number of the pupils require them. 

Sixth. — To employ teachers for every school in the 
county, and to contract with and pay the same for their 
services ; Provided, That schools shall not be located 
nearer than three miles to each other, unless for some 
local reason or necessity. 

Seventh. — To audit and pay all accounts due by the 
board of public instruction. 

Eighth. — To keep accurate accounts of all their official 
acts, proceedings and decisions, of all moneys received, 
held or disbursed, of all property acquired or disposed 
of, in a proper set of account books, and a record of the 
state and condition of each school, and to report the same 
to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction when 
required. They shall also at the close of the scholastic 
year prepare an itemized report of all moneys by them 
received and disbursed. 



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Cb. 4332^ Ninth. — To prepare and file with the clerk of the cir- 

sec. 3, Re- euit court of their respective counties by the first Tuesday 
^^""^ ' after the first Monday in every month, an itemized finan- 

cial statement showing all sums of money received during 
the month next preceding, on account of county school 
funds, and from whom received, and from what source 
derived, all appropriations made by such board, and for 
what purpose made, all warrants drawn by such board, 
in whose favor and for and on what account drawn, de- 
scribing such warrant by date, number and amount. All 
such monthly financial statements shall be certified by 
the chairman of the board of public instruction for the 
county, and attested by the county superintendent of 
public instruction, and the said board shall without delay 
cause the same to be published in a newspaper of the 
county, when any such newspaper exists : Provided, That 
the cost of such monthly publication shall not exceed two 
dollars per month; otherwise they shall post the same at 
the court house and at three other public places in the 
county. 

Ch. 3872. Tenth. — To prescribe, in consultation with prominent 

le? "^0^^ teachers, a course of study for the schools of the county 
and grade them properly; and to require to be taught in 
every public school in the county over which they pre- 
side, elementary physiology, especially as it relates to the 
effects of alcoholic stimulants And narcotics, morally, men- 
tally and phyically; and all persons applying for certifi- 
cates to teach shall be examined upon this branch of 
study, under the same conditions as other branches re- 
quired by law. 

Eleventh. — To perform all acts reasonable and neces- 
sary for the promotion of the educational interests of the 
county and the general difilusion of knoAvledge among the 
citizens. 

Twelfth. — To hold regular meetings for the transaction 
of business, by arrangement with the State Superinten- 
dent of PulDlic- Instruction, and to convene a special ses- 
sion on emergencies when requested by the county super- 
intendent of public instruction. 

Thirteenth. — To prepare, on or before the last Monday 
in June of each year, an itemized estimate showing the 
amount of money required for the maintenance of the 



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necessary common schools of their county for the next 
ensuing scholastic .year, stating the amount in mills on 
the dollar of taxable property in the county, which shall 
not be less than three or more than ten mills, and furnish 
a copy of the statement to the assessor of taxes of the 
county, and file a copy in the office of the board of public 
instruction ; and the assessor shall assess the amount so 
stated, and the collector shall collect the amount assessed 
and pay over the same monthly to the county depository, 
which is also by law school treasurer, to be used for the 
sole benefit of the public schools. 



County boai-ds of public instruction to "ascertain and determine" 
amount of tax to be levied and collected for school purposes. Jones v. 
State, 17 Fla. 411. 

The "itemized estimate" of moneys required to be raised by county 
tax for school purposes should give the estimated income from the State 
school tax and other probable sources. State v. County Commissioners 
Gadsden County, 17 Fla. 418. 

The existing statutes do not authorize the county commissioners to 
revise the decision of the county board of public instruction as to the 
millage required for the maintenance of the necessary schools of the 
county. Tomasello v. Board of Public Instruction Santa Rosa County, 55 
Fla. 341, 45 So. 886. 

Fourteenth. — To select candidates for admission to the 
State colleges and seminaries. 

Fifteenth. — To examine at least twice each year the ch. 4666. 
books and records of the tax collector which relate to the '^^^f _^1899, 
collection of poll taxes, and said board shall require 
prompt settlement for all poll taxes assessed, together 
with those not assessed, but collected. Any member of a 
county school board who neglects to comply with the pro- 
visions of this act shall be suspended from office. 

Sec. 5i. (458) County School Board Authorized to 
Borrow Money. — That when there is no money in the 
county school fund applicable to the payment of out- 
standing school warrants issued by any county board of 
public instruction in this state, the county boards of pub- 
lic instruction of the several counties in this State are 
hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money at 
a rate of interest not to exceed eight per cent per annum, 
for the purpose of paying all outstanding warrants, and 
for the further purpose of paying any and all legitimate 
expenses incurred in operating the schools of said county : 
Provided, however, That it shall be unlawful for any 
county school board to borrow any sum of money in any 
one year in excess of eighty per cent of the amount as 



Ch. 5390. 
Acts 1905, 
Sec. 1, as 
amended by 
Ch. 6828, 
Acts 1915, 
Sec. 1. 



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Ch. 5390, 
Acts 1905, 
Sec. 2, as 
amended by 
Ch. 6828, 
Acts 1915, 
Sec 1. 
revised. 

Ch. 5390, 
Acts 1905. 
Sec. 3, 
amended by 

Ch. 6828, 
Acts 1915, 
Sec. 3. 



Ch. 8549, 
Sec. 1, 
Acts 1921. 



estimated by them to be required for the maintenance of 
the necessary common schools of their county for the next 
ensuing' scholastic year in the manner prescribed by Sec- 
tion 454, sub-section 13, of these Revised General Statutes, 
which said sum so borrowed shall be paid in full before 
the board shall be authorized to borrow on the estimate 
for any succeeding year. Provided, further, that nothing 
in this act shall be construed to invalidate any outstand- 
ing debt of any count}" as now existing and now due, or 
to become due, or as requiring any board of public in- 
struction to pay for the same in full before being per- 
mitted to borrovv^ eighty per cent on the estimate for the 
next ensuing year, or to prohibit any board from funding 
or refunding at its maturity any debt created and exist- 
ing on or before July 1st, A. D. 1915, and being thereby 
prohibited from borrowing eighty per cent of its income 
for tiie ensuing year, as provided above ; and provided, 
further, that no school bpard shall, after July 1, 1915, 
incur debts of any nature in excess of the estimated 
amount, except as herein provided. 

Sec. 55. (459) Presentation of School Warrants. — That 
it shall be the duty of the county depository, upon pre- 
sentation to it of the county school warrants, to pay the 
same, if there are any funds in its custody applicable 
thereto. 

Sec. 5'3. (460) How Interest Payments Made.— That all 
interest payments made under Section 458 shall be by 
warrant issued by the county board of public instruction 
in the same manner as warrants for other indebtedness 
are issued. 

Sec. 57. Outstanding Indebtedness of School Boards 
Validated. — All outstanding, unpaid county school war- 
rants, notes, and other evidences of debt made, issued 
and delivered by the Board of Public Instruction in any 
County in the State of Florida, and duly signed by its 
Chairman, attested by its Secretary, for and in considera- 
tion of service performed as teacher, for labor performed 
and material furnished in the construction of school build- 
ings or additions thereto, furniture, equipment or supplies 
for the same, or for money loaned to and received by such 
Board of Public Instruction for educational purposes and 
for interest on such loans, prior to this Act becoming a 
law, are, hereby in all respect, validated and declared to 



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be legal and binding obligations ; provided, however, that 
this Act shall not apply to any warrants, notes or evi- 
dence of indebtedness of any Board of Public Instruction 
where the consideration or purchase price agreed to be 
furnished or paid said Board therefor, or the money 
agreed to be loaned to said Board thereon, has not been 
fully furnished to and received by the Board issuing the 
same. 

Sec. 58. Outstanding Indebtedness — Interest Bearing ch. so48, 
Coupon Warrants. — The Board of Public Instruction of l^g -'^921. 
each County in the State of Florida, now having an out- 
standing indebtedness, evidenced by County School War- 
rants, Notes or otherwise, made, issued and delivered by 
such Board of Public Instruction, duly signed by the 
Chairman and attested by the Secretary of such Board, 
for and in consideration of service performed as teacher, 
for labor performed and material furnished in the con- 
struction of school buildings or additions thereto, furni- 
ture, equipment or supplies for the same, or for money 
loaned to and received by such Board of Public Instruc- 
tion for educational purposes and for interest on such 
loans, shall be, and is hereby authorized and empowered 
to issue and sell interest bearing coupon warrants in a 
sum or sums not to exceed the total amount of such out- 
standing and unpaid school warrants, notes or other evi- 
dences of debt issued and delivered by such Board as 
aforesaid, for the purposes aforesaid, or for such portion 
thereof as such Board maj be liable, under the provisions 
of the Constitution of the State of Florida, where a new 
county has been created from a portion of the County in 
which such indebtedness was incurred, and any new 
Comity created from a portion of any County in which 
such indebtedness was incurred, as aforesaid, shall be, and 
is hereby likewise authorized and empowered to issue and 
sell such interest bearing coupon warrants in a sum or 
sums equal to the amount of the proportion of such in- 
debtedness for which it is liable as provided by the Con- 
stitution of the State of Florida ; the interest bearing cou- 
pon warrants herein provided for to bear interest at a rate 
not to exceed eight (8) per centum per annum, payable 
annually or semi-annually, as may be found necessary or 
expedient and shall be in such form and denominations as 
the Board issuing same shall prescribe, and none of such 
warrants shall be issued to run for a longer period of time 



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than twenty (20) years from the date of issue. Said war- 
rants to be numbered consecutively, beginning with num- 
ber one, and each warrant shall have attached thereto 
interest coupons, each coupon bearing the number of its 
warrant and representing or calling for an annual, or 
semi-annual, as the case may be, payment of interest on 
its warrant. Each warrant shall be signed by the Chair- 
man and attested by the Secretary of the Board issuing 
the same, and shall have the seal of said Board affixed 
thereto, and the interest coupons attached thereto shall 
be signed by or bear the printed or lithographed facsimile 
signature of said Chairman and Secretary. Each war- 
rant and interest coupon shall be dated and shall bear 
their due date. Said warrants and interest coupons shall 
be issued upon and payable out of the County School 
Fund of the County in which issued. 

lb. Sec. 2. Sec. 59. Money To Be Set Apart for Payment. — It shall 

be the duty of the County Board of Public Instruction 
issuing interest bearing coupon warrants, provided for 
in Section one, and its successors, each year during the 
time such warrants shall run,' to set apart out of the 
County School Fund sufficient money to meet and pay off 
said warrants and the interest coupons thereon as the 
same shall become due and paj-able. 

lb. Sec. 3. Sec. 60. Payable at Depository. — The coupon warrants 

herein provided for and the interest coupons shall be 
payable to the order of bearer at the County School Fund 
Depository of the county in which such warrants are 
issued. 

lb. Sec. 4. Sec. 61. Proceeds To Be Applied Solely to Payment of 

Warrants. — The proceeds arising from the sale of such 
interest bearing coupon warrants shall be applied solely 
to the payment of the warrants, notes and other evidences 
of debt mentioned and described in Section one of this 
Act, and at and upon the payment thereof said warrants, 
notes and other evidences of debt shall be surrendered 
and cancelled. 



lb. Sec. 5. 



Sec. 62. Warrants Negotiable. — All the interest bear- 
ing coupon warrants herein authorized, including the in- 
terest coupons, thereto attached, when issued shall have 
all the properties and attributes of commercial paper and 



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negotiable mstruments in favor of the holders thereof, 
respectively. 

Sec. 63. Powers Not Abridged. — Nothing in Section ib. see. 6. 
458 of the Revised General Statutes of Florida, nor in 
any other law of this State, shall be construed to limit or 
abridge the powers herein granted, nor shall the warrants 
herein authorized to be issued held to be a loan falling 
within any of the restrictions or prohibitions of said Sec- 
tion 458 of the Revised General Statutes or other law of 
this State, 

Sec. 64. Section 458, Revised General Statutes, Not ib. see 7. 
Impaired. — Nothing contained in this Act shall be con- 
strued as limiting or abridging any of the powers con- 
ferred upon any County Board of Public Instruction un- 
der the provisions of Section 458 of the Revised General 
Statutes of Florida, and said Board shall continue to 
have all the powers and authority provided for in said 
Section 458 of the Revised General Statutes unimpaired 
by anything contained in this Act. 

Sec. 65. State Board of Education May Invest in Cou- hj- see. 8. 
pon Warrants. — The State Board of Education may, if it 
so determine, purchase from any or all the counties in the 
State issuing interest bearing coupon warrants hereinbe- 
fore authorized, such amounts of said warrants, in such 
sum and with such maturities as that the interest thereon 
will not exceed the annual amount apportioned to said 
County from the State's one mill tax and interest of the 
State School Fund, said amount to be determined by the 
average annual amounts apportioned to said County from 
both said funds for the five years immediately preceding 
the purchase of said warrants. 

Sec. 6Q. (461) Not to Contract With Members. — No ch. 3S72, 
board of public instruction shall have power to enter into ^^^^ ol^^^ 
contract with any of its members, except for the purpose 
of obtaining school sites. 

' Sec. 67. (462) County Board of Public Instruction Dis- cii. 4193, 
tricts. — The county board of public instruction in each sec.^ 2. 
county shall divide their respective counties into three 
county school board districts so as to place in each dis- 
trict, as nearly as practicable, the same number of quali- 
fied voters, the lines of said district to be so drawn as to 
place each election district wholly within one or another 



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of said county school board districts; and the members 
of the county board of public instruction shall file in the 
office of the clerk of the circuit court for such county a 
certificate of their said action, containing a description of 
the boundaries, of said districts, and naming the election 
districts comprising each county school board district, 
which certificate shall be published in a newpaper pub- 
lished in the county, or if there be no newspaper published 
in the county, then by posting at the county court house 
door for four weeks thereafter. 

The county board of public instruction may thereafter 
change the boundaries of any such districts at a meeting 
in July of the year of a general election, but such change 
shall be certified in the clerk's office and published as 
required for fixing such districts in the first instance. 

ch. 4193, Sec. 68. (463) Vacancies; How Filled. — All vacancies 

sec.^ ^'oQQ on said board of public instruction shall be filled for the 
unexpired term by appointment by the State Board of 
Education on the nomination of the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction. 



Acts 1893. 



OTHER DUTIES OF COUNTY BOARDS AND OTHER 
OFFICERS. 

PART-TIME SCHOOLS. 

Ch. 8550, Sec. 69. Duty to Maintain Part-Time Schools. — That 

Acts "1921. wherever there are fifteen children for any cause, except 
mental or physical disability or the completion of the 
eight grammar grades, exempted from regular school at- 
tendance upon any school or schools three miles or less 
apart and residing or employed within the regular attend- 
ance area of such school or schools, the Board of Public 
Instruction is hereby required and directed to provide a 
part-time school or schools ; such part-time school dr 
schools to be in session at least one hundred forty-four 
hours in any one school year during regular employment 
hours and furnishing instruction in any subjects designed 
to enlarge the civic or vocational intelligence of such 
children. 



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Sec. 70. Who May Be Exempted, and When Law Man- ib. see. 2. 
datory. — That any Board of Public Instruction may at 
its discretion exempt from regular school attendance any 
child fourteen years of age or over who may be properly 
employed under the laws of Florida and who is enrolled 
in a part-time school as provided in Sections 1 and 3 of 
this Act ; provided, that this section shall be mandatory 
upon Boards of Public Instruction only where Federal 
funds provided for under Act of Congress and funds 
matching such Federal funds are available for the salaries 
of teachers of such part-time schools. 

Sec. 71. Subjects To Be Taught.— That Boards of Pub- ib. sec 3. 
lie Instruction are hereby authorized to provide part-time 
schools furnishing instruction to persons fourteen years 
of age or over in any subjects designed to enlarge the 
civic or vocational intelligence of such persons. 

Sec. 72. Attendance at Part-Time Schools Required. — i^. see. 4. 
That any parent, guardian or other person having the 
control, custody or charge of any child who has been ex- 
empted from regular school for any cause, except mental 
or physical disability or the completion of the eight gram- 
mar grades, is hereby required to cause such child to 
attend a part-time school for at least one hundred forty- 
four hours in any one school year wherever such part- 
time school has been provided in compliance with Sections 
1 and 3 of this Act ; and any person employing such child 
is hereby required to permit such child to attend such, 
part-time school; provided, that wherever a night schj>.«D.I 
giving instruction equal in length to that of a part-sehooK 
established in compliance with Section 1 of this Act has^ 
been established prior to the passage of this Act and is 
maintained by the Board of Public Instruction, the Board 
of Public Instruction may accept such night school at- 
tendance in lieu of part-time school attendance. 

Sec. 73. Compulsory Attendance Law Applicable.— m. see. 5. 
That the provisions of the Compulsory School Attendance 
Law, Chapter 7808, Acts of 1919, Laws of Florida, and 
amendments thereto, relating to the enforcement aad ad- 
ministration of compulsory school attendance are hereby 
made applicable to the enforcement and administration of 
this Act, and the State Board of Education may prescribe 
such rules and regulations as in their discretion are neces- 
sary to carry out the provisions of this Act, 



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KINDERGARTENS. 

ch. 5387. Sec. 74. (455) Kinderg-artens May Be Established in 

Sec.^ 1. '^' Counties. — That any county board of public instruction 
or board of trustees of any special tax school district is 
hereby empowered to establish and maintain kindergar- 
tens in communities guaranteeing the attendance of 
twenty-five (25) kindergarten pupils. "" 

lb. Sec. 2. Sec. 75. (456) Kindergarten Part of Public School.— 

That every kindergarten established under this act shall 
be a part of the public school taught in the same com- 
munity, and shall be under the direction and control of 
the principal of the said public school. 

lb. Sec. 3. Sec. 76. (457) Qualifications of Principals for Kinder- 
gartens. — That no person shall be employed to teach as 
principal of a kindergarten department who does not hold 
a certificate of graduation from a reputable kindergarten 
training school. 

FIRE ESCAPES. 

Ch. 5937, Sec. 79. (466) School Building-s To Be Provided With 

Acts _^i909, p^g Escapes.— That all public school buildings within the 
State of Florida, of two or more stories in height, the 
story or stories of which shall be used for public school 
purposes, shall be provided with adequate stairways or 
fire escapes for egress in case of, fire. 

lb. Sec. 2. Sec. 78. (467) Board of Public Instruction to Desig- 

nate Number and Location, Etc. — The number of such 
stairways or fire escapes, and their location, material and 
construction, shall be as designated and prescribed by the 
board of public instruction of the county in which said 
school building or buildings shall be located. 

lb. Sec. 3. Sec. 79. (468) Fire Escapes To Be Kept in Perfect 

Order. — The board of public instruction of each of the 
counties of the State of Florida shall, on or before Octo- 
ber 1st, 1909, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, 
have constructed the stairways or fire escapes hereinbe- 
fore described, and shall at all times keep or have the 
same kept in perfect order. 

lb. Sec. 4. Sec. 80. (469) Doors of School Houses to Swing Out- 

ward. — That all the outer doors of any public school 



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building, where there shall be two or more rooms, shall 
be so hung that when they are opened they will swing to 
the outside. 

Sec. 81. (470) Time for Compliance With Regulation. — lu. see. 5. 
The board of public instruction for the several counties 
of the State of Florida shall, on or before October 1st, 
1909, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, have 
the doors of said school building changed, if necessary, 
to comply with the provisions of said Section 469. 

Sec. 82. (471) Fire Drills in Public Schools.— The Su- ib. see. 6 
perintendent of .Public Instruction of the State of Florida 
shall, on or before October 1st, 1909, or as soon thereafter 
as may be practicable, formulate and prescribe tactics of 
instruction for fire drills for all the public schools of the 
State of Florida, and each teacher teaching in such school 
shall be provided with a copy of such tactics, and it shall 
be the duty of each and every of such teachers to instruct 
the students of their respective schools in such fire drills 
as prescribed by the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction. 

Sec. 83. (472) Penalty for Failure to Comply With ib. see i. 
Preceding Sections. — Any teacher or officer mentioned in 
Sections 468, 470 and 471 of these Revised General Stat- 
utes who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions 
of said sections shall be removed from his position or 
office. 

SCHOOL CLOSETS. 

Sec. 84. (473) School Closets; Separate Compartments ch. esse, 
for Each Sex.— That all school buildings, public or pri- f^^^^^ ^^^^' 
vate, in this State shall be provided with adequate facili- 
ties for nature's conveniences, by either water carriage 
or surface closets, with separate compartments for each 
sex. 

Sec. 85. (474) School Closets in Rural Districts.^That ib. sec. 2. 
in rural districts where sewerage systems do not exist, all 
surface closets used in connection with such schools shall 
be of fly-proof construction and in conformity with plans 
recommended or approved by the State Board of Health, 
with separate compartments for each sex. 

3 — S. Laws 



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ch. (5836, Sec. 86. (5872) Failure to Provide School Building 

sec.^ 3^ ' with Closets. — That any public school board or any per- 
son, firm or corporation conducting any private school, 
who shall have charge of the erection, repair or mainte- 
nance of any school building, who shall fail to provide 
said buildings with the facilities required by Section 473, 
or who shall fail to provide surface closets as required by 
Section 474, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding fifty ($50) 
dollars. 

AGRICULTURE AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 



Ch. 5938, 



Sec. 87. (475) Agriculture and Civil Government To 
sec^ 1^^^' -^^ Taught in Public Schools. — That the elementary prin- 
ciples of agriculture and the elements of civil government 
be included in the branches of study taught in the com- 
mon and public schools of the State of Florida, and shall 
be studied and taught as thoroughly and ui the same man- 
ner as other like required branches are studied and taught 
in said schools. 

lb. Sec. 2. Sec. 88. (476) School Board to Require Agriculture, 

Etc., To Be Taught.— That it shall be the duty of the 
county school board of education of the several counties 
of the State to prescribe and require that the teachers 
throughout their counties respectively, teach the elemen- 
tary principles of agriculture, and the elements of civil 
government in the same manner as other like required 
branches are studied and taught in said schools. 

lb. Sec. 3. Sec. 89. (477) Examining Boards to Require Teachers 

to Stand Examinations in Agriculture and Civil Govern- 
ment. — That it shall be the duty of all examining boards 
in this State in prescribing examinations for teachers in 
the public schools, to require them to stand a satisfactory 
. examination in the elementary principles of agriculture 
and the elements of civil government, the same as upon 
any other subjects taught in said schools. 

lb. Sec. 4. Sec. 90. (478) Penalty for Failure to Comply with Pre- 

ceding Sections. — That any person who fails or neglects 
to comply with the foregoing provisions of Sections 475, 
476 and 477, when the requirements of said provisions 
apply to them, shall be guilty of negligence of their duty 
and subject to removal by the proper authority for such 
failure to comply with said law. 



Ch. 6S32, 



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ALCOHOLICS AND NARCOTICS. 

Sec. 91. (479) Evils of Alcoholic Beverages and Nar- 
cotics To Be Taught. — That the evils of alcoholic bever- ^cjs ^1915, 
ages and narcotics shall be taught in the public schools 
of the State, and. that the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction is hereby authorized and directed to encour- 
age and put in execution an effective system for teaching 
the evils of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics in the pub- 
lic schools of the State to all children between the ages 
of six and twelve years. 

Sec. 92. (480) Duty of Superintendent and School ib. sec 2, 
Board to Require Instructions, Etc.^ — It is herebj'^ made 
the duty of ■ the county superintendent and the county 
board of public instruction of each and every county to 
receive, promulgate and to require all instructions and 
directions of the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion for the teaching of the effects of alcoholic beverages 
and narcotics to all youth between the ages of six and 
twelve years to be faithfully and efficiently executed, and 
to require such reports from teachers showing that such 
subjects are being faithfully taught by means of pictures 
and oral instructions to pupils not sufficiently advanced 
to use a text-book on the subject ; and to see that properly 
graded text-books treating of the effects of alcoholic 
beverages and narcotics are provided all pupils under the 
age of twelve years that are prepared to use such text- 
books, and that the same are faithfully and efficiently 
taught. 

Sec. 93. (481) Duty of Principal to Make Report, Etc. ib. see. 3. 
It shall be the duty of the principal of every school to 
make report as may be required to the county board of 
public instruction, showing that the instruction required 
in Section 479 is being efficiently given by competent 
teachers, and that the spirit of this law is being faithfully 
carried out. 

Sec. 94. (482) Failure of Teachers to Instruct. — Any ib. Sec. 4. 
<3ounty board of public instruction may be enjoined from 
employing any teacher who does not make a faithful at- 
tempt to teach the subject directed in Section 479, and 
to make such report as may be required. 



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lb. Sec. 5. Sec. 95. (483) Annual Report to State Superinten- 

dent. — It shall be the duty of every county superinten- 
dent to make, at least annually, and oftener when re- 
quired, to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
on blanks furnished, a full and complete report of the 
method of instruction, the time devoted to the teaching 
of the subject embraced iii Section 479, and of such other 
matters as may be required in the several schools under 
his supervision. Refusal or neglect to make such reports 
shall subject any county superintendent to be reported to 
the Governor as negligent in the discharge of his duties. 

lb. Sec. 6. Sec. 96. (484) Appropriation for Expenses. — The an- 

nual appropriation for the contingent expenses of the 
office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall 
be sufficient to cover all necessary expenses in the proper 
execution of this law ; and he shall make report of this 
matter in his biennial report to the Governor. 

HOME ECONOMICS. 

ch. 6833, Sec. 97. (485) Home Economics Authorized To Be 

Acts ^1915, Taught. — Any county board of public instruction or the 
board of trustees of any special tax school district is 
hereby authorized and empowered to establish and main- 
tain a department of home economics or a department of 
home demonstration work in any of the high schools of 
this State, and to pay the expenses of such departments 
out of any public school fund at their disposal. 

lb. sec. 2. Sec. 98. (486) Canning- Clubs, Etc.; Qualifications of 

Instructor. — Section 485 shall extend to and include can- 
ning clubs, corn clubs, and departments of agriculture, 
to acquire land, stock, fertilizer, seed and implements 
necessary to maintain the same. And no person shall be 
employed to demonstrate, teach or instruct in any of the 
departments mentioned herein who does not hold a certi- 
ficate of graduation from a recognized college, university 
or normal school indicating special training in home eco- 
nomics, home demonstration work or agricultural work, 
or any one who has had satisfactory experience in home 
economics or canning club work. 

lb. Sec. 3. Sec. 99. (487) School Board Authorized to Employ 

County Agents. — County boards of public instruction are 
further empowered to employ county agents who shall, 



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under the joint supervision of the county superintendent 
of public instruction and the Florida State College for 
Women or the University of Florida, conduct practical 
demonstration work in home economics, girls' and- wom- 
en's contest work, canning club, corn club or agricultural 
work and other movements for the advancement of coun- 
try home life, and shall aid the county superintendent 
and teachers in giving practical education in home, fiarm 
or garden economics. 

Sec. 100. Boards Authorized to Acquire Land. — The g^^ ''^sie, 
County Boards of Public Instruction of the several coun- Acts ]'9i9. 
ties of this State are hereby authorized to acquire by 
purchase or lease or gift suitable lands for use in Farm 
Demonstration Work in connection with any school in 
the county ; Provided, any tract so acquired shall not ex- 
ceed forty acres in area for each school and shall be 
located convenient and accessible to the school in connec- 
tion with which it is to be used. 

SCHOLARSHIPS. 



Ch. 6837, 



Sec. 101. (1482) May Authorize Scholarship in Agri- 
cultural Department of University. — That the board of |<^js ji^i's, 
county commissioners of each county in this State is 
hereby authorized to offer and create one scholarship to 
the agricultural department of the University of Florida 
at Gainesville. 



Sec. 102. (1483) Awarding of Scholarship.— The said 
scholarship shall be awarded by competitive examination 
under the rules and authority prescribed by the said 
board of county commissioners, and shall entitle the 
holder thereof to a full course of instruction at the Uni- 
versity of Florida, and shall subject the holder thereof to 
the same rules and regulations as other students at the 
University of Florida. 

Sec. 103. (1484) Eligibility of Applicant.— All appli- 
cants for the said scholarship shall be eligible for admis- 
sion to the University of Florida, and anyone so appointed 
shall sign a certificate agreeing, if capable and otherwise 
qualified, to engage in agricultural pursuits in this State. 
Nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with 
their receiving compensation for services rendered while 
engaged in such pursuits. 



lb. Sec. 2. 



lb. Sec. 3. 



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lb. Sec. 4 
and 5. 



Sec. 104. (1485) Appropriation Authorized for Schol- 
arship; Term "Board" Defined. — That for the purpose of 
maintaiuiug such scholarships the board of county com- 
missioners of each county iu this State is hereby author- 
ized to appropriate from any funds at their disposal a 
sum sufficient to pay the board of the person receiving 
the said scholarship. 

The term board herein named shall be construed to 
mean the regular dormitory rate and shall be paid 
monthh' while the holder of the said scholarship is in 
attendance at the Universitv of Florida. 



COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT. 



^h. 3872, 
Acts 1889, 
Sec. 22 ; Ch. 
4679, Acts 
1889, Sec. 1, 
as amended 
by 6242, 
Acts 1911, 
Sec. 1. 



Sec. 105. (464) Duties of County Superintendent. — The 

county superintendent of public instruction is directed : 
First. — To make timely inspection of the county, to 
ascertain the location in which schools should be estab- 
lished, the number of youth who would attend each, and 
the amount of aid that the citizens of the neighborhood 
will contribute to encourage the establishment of a school. 
Second. — To visit each school at least once during each 
school term, and to make a thorough examination of its 
conditions as respects the progress of the pupils in learn- 
ing, the order and discipline observed, the system of in- 
struction pursued, the attendance of the pupils, the mode 
of keeping the school records, the character and condi- 
tion of the school buildings, furniture, books, apparatus 
and premises, the efficiency of the school supervisor, the 
interest and co-operation of the citizens in regard to edu- 
cational matters, and to give such advice as he may deem 
proper. 

Third. — To do all in his power to awaken an increased 
interest in parents, guardians, school supervisors and 
teachers, with regard to the better education of youth in. 
every respect and the general diffusion of knowledge. 

Fourth. — To confer with the school supervisors fre- 
quently and see that they attend to their duties, keeping 
them supplied with a copy of the school laws, decisions, 
blanks and regulations of the department. 



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Fifth. — To select for school supervisors persons whost: 
character, qualifications and sympathy with education 
specially commend them to those positions. 

Sixth. — To keep a record bj^ number, name and descrip^ 
tion of the locality of each school established, of the ex- 
penses incurred for, and of his visits of inspection to, the 
several schools. 

Seventh. — To notify the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, immediately upon entering upon his duties, 
the names and addresses of all county school officers. 

Eighth. — ^To decide upon questions and disputes which 
arise when submitted to him by the parties interested, 
a-nd to refer his decisions to the board of public instruc- 
tion. 

Ninth. — To see that the interests of the county are 
properly guarded and its rights secured in the making 
and performance of every contract for the construction 
of school buildings, or for other purposes ; and that all 
monej^s apportioned to or raised by the county are ap- 
plied to the objects for which they were granted or raised. 

Tenth.— To revoke or suspend certificates and suspend 
those issued by other authority for cause manifestly suffi- 
cient, giving notice in writing to the authority issuing 
them and of the grounds for so doing ; also notifying the 
teacher in like manner, and of the right of appeal, to 
whom and when the appeal should be made. 

Eleventh. — Acting as secretarv of the county school ch. 4666 

" ■ n Acts 1899 

board, he shall make and forward monthly a certified sec 2, 
copy of the tax collector's monthly lists of persons who Revised, 
have paid their poll taxes, to the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction, who shall file and preserve the same 
in his office as a part of the public records and furnish 
copies when requested by the citizens of this State. 

Sec. 106. To Make Annual Report to the State Super- gh. 8547, 
intendent. — It shall be the duty of each and every County Act's 1921. 
Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare and file 
an accurate report of school operations in his county in 
conformity with blanks sent out by the State Department 



lb. Sec. 2. 



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of Public Instruction, and to file the same in the office of 
the State Superintendent of Public Instruction on or be- 
fore the fifteenth day of August of each and every year. 

Sec. 107. Penalty for Failure to Report. — It shall be 
the dut}' of the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion, when said report from any county is not filed and 
accepted by August 15th, to notify the Count}' Board of 
Public Instruction that the report of the County Superin- 
tendent has not been received, or has not been accepted 
on account of the defective manner in which it was made 
out ; and it shall be the duty of the County Board of Pub- 
lic Instruction of such county to withhold the further 
payment of salary to the said County Superintendent 
until the County Board of Public Instruction is notified 
by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction that 
said report has been received and accepted. The member 
or members of any County Board of Public Instruction 
who shall be responsible for the violation of this Act 
shall be subject to removal by the Governor or complaint 
filed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



SCHOOL SUPERVISORS AND TRUSTEES. 

Acts^^i?89, Sec. 108. (465) Duties of Supervisor. — Every super- 

Sec. 23. visor is directed : 

First. — To supervise the work and management of the 
school and its interest over Avhich he is appointed, and 
report monthly to the board of public instruction. 

Second. — To supervise the construction, rental, repair 
and improvement of the school buildings, furniture, 
fences, grounds and fixtures ; to procure a copy of the 
school laws, regulations and decisions for the use of the 
teacher and his own instruction. 

Third. — To attend at all times when requested by, and 
co-operate with the teacher in his effort to elevate the 
character and condition of the school ; to review all sus- 
pensions from school by the teacher of pupils guilty of 
gross misconduct and a disregard of and persistent oppo- 
sition to the authority of the teacher, and to promptly 
report the same to the county superintendent of public 
instruction. 



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Sec. 109. (568) Supervisor Superseded by Trustees. — 

Whenever a special tax school district is created and 
trustees are elected, they shall have the supervision of 
all the public schools within said district. The position 
of supervisor shall be superseded by that of trustees, and 
the duties prescribed by law for the supervisors shall be 
performed by the trustees. The powers of trustees shall 
not be those of control, but of supervision only, and shall 
extend to all the public schools within the special tax 
district. Any trustee failing to discharge the duties of 
the position shall be removed, after due notice to such 
trustee, by the county board of public instruction, and 
all vacancies occurring in the board of trustees from any 
cause, shall be filled for the unexpired term by the covinty 
board of public instruction, upon nomination by the 
patrons of the schools. 



Ch. 4678, 
Acts 1899, 
Sec. 9. 



CERTIFICATION AND EXAMINATION OF 
TEACHERS. 



Ch. 7372, 
Acts 1917, 
Sec. 1. 



Sec. 110. (488) Persons Permitted to Teach in Public 
School; Proviso. — No person shall be permitted to teach 
in the public schools of this State who does not hold a 
teacher's certificate granted under this article; nor shall 
any county board of public instruction employ, contract 
with or pay any person salary for services as a teacher 
who does not hold a valid teacher's certificate granted 
under this article : Provided, That the validity of no cer- 
tificate issued under the laws of this State since A. D. 
1894 shall be rendered invalid thereby. 

Sec. 111. (489) Grades .of Certificates. — There shall be ib. see. 2. 
ten grades of teachers' certificates issued, the require- 
ment for each being as hereinafter specified, and such cer- 
tificates shall be known and named as follows : Tempor- 
ary, primary, third grade, second grade, first grade, spe- 
cial, State, life primary, life first grade, life State cer- 
tificate. . 

Sec. 112. (490) Certificates Issued on Oral and Writ- i>' 
ten Examination. — No certificate, except as otherwise pro- 
vided in this article, shall be issued except upon oral and 
written examination. 



Sec. s. 



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lb. Sec. 4. Sec. 113. (491) Certificates Must Cover Subjects 

Taug"ht. — No person shall teacli any subject in a public 
school unless he holds a valid certificate covering the sub- 
ject taught. 

lb. Sec. 5. Sec. 114. (492) Applicants Must Present Endorse- 

ments; Fees. — Any applicant for any certificate, before 
being eligible for examination, shall present to the board 
of examiners a written endorsement of good moral char- 
acter, signed by two responsible persons, and shall pay 
the following examination fee : Applicants for third 
grade, $1 ; for second grade, $1.50 ; for first grade, $2 : 
for primary, $3 ; for special, $2.50 ; for State, $5, which 
fees shall be applied as hereinafter provided. 

lb. Sec. 6. Sec. 115. (493) Temporary Certificates. — A temporary 

certificate shall be issued without examination by the 
State Superintendent upon the request and recommenda- 
tion of a county superintendent -of public instruction in 
an emergency, which emergency must be clearly set forth 
in said request for a temporary certificate ; said certificate 
shall be valid for teaching only until the State board of 
examiners shall hold an examination within the county 
or an adjoining county in which the holder of said tem- 
porary certificate is employed. 

Any person desiring to teach upon a diploma awarded 
outside of this State shall obtain a certificate before teach- 
ing as hereinafter provided in this article. 

lb. Sec. 7. Sec. 116. (494) Primary Certificates. — A primary cer- 

tificate shall be issued to any eligible applicant meeting 
the following requirements : First, who presents satisfac- 
tory evidence of having received either special instruction 
for one year or more in primary methods and practice 
teaching in a recognized normal school, or its equivalent ; 
second, who passes an oral and written examination on 
reading, arithmetic, English grammar, composition, geog- 
raphy and United States history, and makes an average 
grade of 80 per cent, with a grade on no subject below 
60 per cent ; third, who makes an average grade of 80 per 
cent, with a grade on no subject below 60 per cent upon 
the following subjects, as they relate to primarj^ teaching, 
nature study, drawing, manual training, school singing, 
and the elements of psychology. A primary certificate 
shall be valid for teaching onlv in the first, second or 



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third grade of regular graded schools of four teachers or 
more, and shall be valid for only four years, except as 
otherwise provided in this article. 

Sec. 117. (495) Third Grade Certificate.— Any eligible ib. see. s. 
applicant passing a satisfactory oral and written examin- 
ation on orthography, reading, arithmetic, English gram- 
mar, composition, geography. United States history, phy- 
siology and theory and practice of teaching, and making 
an average grade of 70 per cent, with a grade on no sub- 
ject below 50 per cent, shall receive a third grade certifi- 
cate valid for one year from date of issue. 

Sec. 118. (496) Second Grade Certificate. — Any eligible ib. see 9. 
applicant passing a satisfactory oral and written examin- 
ation on the subjects prescribed for a third grade certifi- 
cate and on agriculture and civil government, and making 
an average grade of 80 per cent, with a grade on no sub- 
ject below 60 per cent, shall receive a second grade cer- 
tificate valid for three years from date of issue. 

Sec. 119. (497) First Grade Certificate.— Any eligible ^^- ^^''- ^^^ 
applicant passing a satisfactory oral and written examin- 
ation on the subjects prescribed for a second grade cer- 
tificate and on physical geography and algebra, and mak- 
ing an average grade of 85 per cent, with a grade on no 
subject below 60 per cent, shall receive a first grade cer- 
tificate valid for five years from date of issue, except as 
otherwise provided in this article. 

Sec. 120. (498) Special Certificates. — Any eligible ap- H). see. ii. 
plicant presenting satisfactory evidence of possessing 
ability to teach one or more subjects not embraced in the 
requirements for a second grade certificate, and passing 
a satisfactory oral and written examination on one or 
more subjects, shall receive a special certificate on every 
subject on which a grade of 90 per cent is made. A 
special certificate shall be valid for teaching only the 
subjects covered by it and for .five years from date of 
issue. 

Sec. 121. (499) State Certificate. — Any eligible appli- i^. see 12. 
cant presenting satisfactory evidence of having taught 
successfully twenty-four months in all, and passing a 
satisfactory oral and written examination on geometry, 
trigonometry, physics, botany, zoology, Latin, rhetoric, 
English literature, psychology and general history, and 



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making- an average grade of 85 per cent, with a grade on 
no subject below 60 per cent, shall receive a State certifi- 
cate valid for five years from date of issue, except as 
otherwise provided in this article. 

lb. Sec. 13. Sec. 122. (500) Life Primary Certificate. — Any appli- 
cant filing with the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction a valid primary certificate, and presenting satis- 
factory evidence of having taught successfully in the pri- 
mary department of a regular graded school of not less 
than four teachers for a period of thirty-two months 
under a primary certificate, shall receive a life primary 
certificate valid during the life of the holder for teaching 
in primary department only of any public school. 

lb. Sec. 14. Sec. 123. (501) Life First Grade Certificate. — Any ap- 
plicant filing with the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction a valid first grade certificate, and presenting 
satisfactory evidence of having taught twenty years in 
the public free schools of this State, the last ten years 
consecutively on first grade certificates, and as being of 
good moral character, faithful and successful as an irb- 
structor and disciplinarian, shall receive a life first grade 
certificate, valid during the life of the holder and in any 
part of the State. 

lb. Sec. 15. Sec. 124. (502) Life First Grade Certificate. — Any ap- 
plicant filing with the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction two first grade certificates, each Avith an average 
of not less than 90 per cent, the last one valid, and pre- 
senting satisfactory evidence of having taught a total of 
forty-eight months on the certificates filed, and as being 
of good moral character, faithful and successful as an 
instructor and disciplinarian, shall receive a life first 
grade certificate, valid during the life of the holder and 
in any part of the State. 

Sec. 125. (503) Life State Certificate. — Any applicant 
filing with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
a valid State certificate issued in this State, and present- 
ing satisfactory evidence of having taught successfully in 
a high school or college in this State for a period of 
eighteen months under a State certificate, and presenting 
endorsement of three holders of life State certificates as 
possessing eminent ability both as a teacher and discip- 



Ib. Sec. 16. 



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linarian, shall receive a life State certificate of perpetual 
and State-wide validity. 

Sec. 126. (504) Life First Grade Certificate.— Any per- ib. see. la, 
son filing with the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- '^^* ^^^' 
tion one first grade certificate with three extensions of 
same, secured by attendance at either of the State sum- 
mer schools, and, presenting satisfactory evidence of hav- 
ing taught a total of forty-eight months on the certificate 
filed and containing such extensions, and as being of good 
moral character, faithful and successful as an instructor 
and disciplinarian, shall receive a life first grade certifi- 
cate, valid during the life of the holder, and good in any 
part of the State. 

Sec. 127. (505) Graduates of Standard Colleges to Re- i^b. f^^J^^ 
ceive Certain Certificates. — (A) Any regular graduate of by ch. 7942, 
a standard university, college, or normal school requiring '^^*® ^^^^' 
a four-year course for graduation, having graduated 
therefrom since June 15, 1905, and desiring a teacher's 
certificate in Florida, shall file an application in the form 
prescribed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion, which form shall contain, with other matter, a com- 
plete transcript of the applicant's college record, showing 
the branches pursued and completed with the grades 
made on each branch expressed on the basis of 100, and 
the number of months each branch was pursued in the 
school reporting, with a certified copy of his or her 
diploma, and satisfactory evidence of having taught 
school successfully for a period of twenty-four months 
after graduation, a fee of five dollars, and satisfactory 
testimonials as to health and moral character, with the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who, with the 
president and dean of the Normal Department of the 
Florida State College for Women, shall constitute a com- 
mission to review and pass upon all applications for cer- 
tificates based upon diplomas ; and the State Superinten- 
dent shall issue a graduate primary, a graduate first 
grade, a graduate special, or a graduate State certificate 
as the commission may determine. 

The applicant's college record must be the same or 
equivalent as to branches completed and grades made as 
is required for a primary, first grade, special, or State 
certificate issued upon examination under Sections 494, 
497, 498 and 499 of this Article ; and all certificates issued 



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under this section shall have the rights, privileges and 
benefits conferred upon those holding like certificates 
issued as the result of examination. 

(B) Courtesy Certificate. — The State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to issue to any 
applicant who files a valid teacher's certificate, or license 
to teach, issued by or in a state other than the State of 
Florida, when such applicant is endorsed and recom- 
mended by the Superintendent of Public Instruction of 
the county wherein such applicant has been elected or 
employed to teach, a courtesy temporary certificate valid 
for two months, except as otherwise provided, authorizing 
the applicant to teach in the school and that school only, 
and the subjects and only the subjects embraced in the 
certificate, or license filed ; Provided, that the holder of 
such courtesy temporary certificate must obtain, on or 
before the expiration of said two months, a regular Flor- 
ida certificate under this Chapter ; Provided further, that 
should the holder of such courtesy temporary certificate 
fail upon examination to merit a certificate or fail to be 
awarded by the commission a certificate based upon a 
diploma from a standard university, college or four-year 
normal school, the said courtesy temporary certificate 
shall be void at once and no other temporary certificate 
shall be issued to said person ; or if the certificate merited 
upon examination or awarded by the commission does not 
embrace each and all the subjects set out in said courtesy 
temporary certificate, then the authority to teach the sub- 
ject or subjects not so embraced shall immediately ter- 
minate. 

ch. Soli, Sec. 128. Substitute Certificate. — Any applicant who 

amend ' to ^^'^^ received a conditional assignment to teach school in 
eh. 8542 Florida, presenting to the State Superintendent of Public 
Acts 1921. Instruction a valid teacher's certificate issued in another 
State Avhose requirements for the certification of teachers 
are similar and fully equal to those of Florida ; furnishing 
satisfactory evidence of having graduated from an ap- 
proved four-year high school, employing a faculty of not 
less than four teachers devoting full time to high school 
work, and, in addition thereto, of having completed a 
course of two to four years in a recognized standard uni- 
versity, college, or normal school; also submitting satis- 
factory evidence of having taught successfully for a 



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period of twenty-four (24) months, an endorsement of 
good moral character, a health certificate signed by a 
reputable practicing physician, and a fee of Five ($5.00) 
Dollars, shall be eligible to receive in substitution a Flor- 
ida teacher's certificate of like grade as the one filed. 

Sec. 129. State Superintendent to Issue. — The State ch. 8542, 

• • • Sec 2 

Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized 
and required Mdien the requirements in Section 1 (Section 
128) of this Act are complied with, to issue to such appli- 
cant without examination a certificate in substitution for 
the one filed. 

Sec. 130. Substitute Certificates Must Equal First jj, g^,, 3 
Grade or State Certificates.— The certificate filed for sub- 
stitution shall be equivalent to and not lower in grade 
than a Florida First Grade or a State Certificate, and the 
certificate issued in lieu of the one filed shall be valid for 
teaching in any public school of the State of Florida for 
a period of three (3) years from its date, but in no grade 
above the tenth (10th) unless the applicant has completed 
a four year course in a recognized standard University, 
College or Normal School, under the provisions of Sec- 
tion 1 of this Act and holds a degree on the basis thereof, 
in which case the substituted certificate issued will be 
valid for teaching in all grades of the High School, in- 
cluding the Eleventh and Twelfth. All certificates issued 
under the provisions of this Act shall have all the rights, 
privileges, and benefits as to life extension conveyed to 
the holders of similar certificates obtained by examina- ^ 

tion in this State and of a like subject to revocation for 
cause. 

Sec. 131. Disposition of Fees. — The fees accruing from ib. gee. 4, 
Section 1 [Sec. 128] of this Act shall be turned over to 
the State Treasurer and disbursed with other examination 
fees for the payment of salaries, traveling and incidental 
expenses of the State Board of Examiners as provided in 
Section 513 of the Revised General Statutes. ■ 

Sec. 132. Reciprocation Necessary. — This Act shall only n,. see. 5, 
apph- where the State from which applicants for certifi- 
cates under this Act come, extend to Florida certificate 
holders the same rights and privileges as in this Act pro- 
vided for holders of certificates from other states. 



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Acts^iln Sec. 133. (506) Qualification of Principals. — Xo person 

Sec. 18. '' shall be eligible for the principalshj^ of a junior high 
school who does not hold a valid life State certificate, a 
State certificate, a graduate State certificate or a first 
grade certificate supplemented by a certificate or certifi- 
cates covering the subjects embraced in the junior high 
school course of study. 

No person shall be eligible for the principalship of an 
intermediate or senior high school who does not hold a 
life State certificate, a State certificate or a graduate 
State certificate. 

lb. Sec. 19. Sec. 134. (507) State Board of Examiners Created.— 

For the conduct of all examinations of teachers there is 
hereby created a State board of examiners, to be com- 
-.posed of three eminently successful and well qualified 
teachers, to be appointed by the State Board of Educa- 
tion upon the nomination of the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction. 

li.. Sec. 20. Sec. 135. (508) Duty of State Board of Examiners. — 

It shall be the duty of the State board of examiners to 
prepare all examination questions ; to personally conduct 
all teacliers' examinations, oral and written, under such 
rules and regulations as the said board of examiners may 
suggest and as shall be approved by the State Board of 
Education; to grade all examinations, oral and written, 
except as may be provided by the State Board of Educa- 
tion, and report weekly to the State Superintendent the 
name of each examinee with the grade made on each sub- 
ject and the grade of certificate to which each is entitled. 

lb. Sec. 21. Sec. 1361 (509) State Superintendents to Issue Certifi- 
cates. — It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction to issue and transmit without delay 
each and every certificate as recommended by the said 
board of examiners, to keep a stub record of each certifi- 
cate issued, and to publish in his biennial report a roster 
of all living holders of valid certificates. 

lb. Sec. 22. Sec. 137. (510) Examinations To Be Practical and 
Uniform; Places and Dates of Examinations. — The State 
board of examiners shall make the examination questions 
practical, conducting them with the aim of testing ability 
to teach rather than verbal memory and a knowledge of 
specific facts, and they shall make the examinations as 



lb Sec. 23. 



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uniform in the conduct, in the grading and in the question 
tests as may be possible without repetition of the same 
questions. 

In July of each year the board of examiners shall for- 
ward to each county superintendent a printed schedule 
giving the places and dates of examinations for the en- 
suing year, so arranged that one examination will be held 
in four or more different sections of the State during each 
month, and one in each county of the State during the 
year: Provided, It shall not be unlawful for the boards 
of public instruction of two or more counties in which the 
number of examinees is small to consent for the examina- 
tion to be held at some convenient and central point to 
their counties. 

Sec. 138. (511) Certificates May Be Revoked.— All cer- 
tificates issued under this article shall have state-wide 
validity, and any certificate may be suspended or revoked 
by a county superintendent as now provided by law, or 
by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction upon 
his own motion, or upon the recommendation of the State 
board of examiners, when the holder proves to be incom- 
petent, unsuccessful, or is guilty of some gross immor- 
ality. 

Sec. 139. (512) Examiners; Term of Office, Salary; ib. gee. 24. 
Statements. — The members of the state board of exam- 
iners shall hold their positions at the discretion of the 
State Board of Education, and each shall receive an an- 
nual salary of two thousand dollars and traveling ex- 
penses not to exceed eight hundred dollars, payable 
monthly upon requisition upon the comptroller approved 
by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. This 
board shall remit monthly to the State Treasurer all ex- 
amination fees collected by them and make to the State 
Board of Education a detailed statement of all such fees, 
attaching thereto a copy of the State Treasurer's receipt. 

Sec. 140. (513) State Treasurer to Keep Fees Separate ; ib. see. 25. 
Disbursements; Annual Appropriation. — The State Treas- by ch!*^79\4, 
urer shall keep in a separate fund all fees arising under Acts 1919. 
Sections 505 and 512 of this Article, from applications 
for certificates upon diplomas and from examinations held 
by the State board of examiners, which funds shall be 
disbursed for the payment of salaries and traveling 

4 — S. I.aws 



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expenses of the State board of examiners and for all 
expenses incident to and necessary in conducting the 
examinations, in grading the papers, and in reviewing 
applications under Section 505 of this Article, upon war- 
rants drawn by the Comptroller upon vouchers approved 
by the State Board of Education ; and there is hereby 
appropriated the sum of four thousand dollars annually, 
or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the 
provisions of this Article in case the fund provided for 
above shall be found insufficient. 

ch. 6165, Sec. 141. (514) Divulging- Questions To Be Used in 

sec.^ i!^"^"*^' Teachers' Examinations. — That it shall be unlawful for 
any school official or employee of any school board or 
school official to divulge to another any of the questions, 
or to give possession of any of the questions or question 
sheets, or information pertaining thereto, to be used in 
any teachers' examination in this State, except as pro- 
vided for by law to those lawfully entitled to receive such 
questions or question sheets. 

lb. Sec. 2. Sec. 142. (515) Penalty for Violation of Preceding 

Section. — That any person or persons convicted of the 
violation of the provisions of Section 514 shall forever 
thereafter be disqualified for holding any public office of 
honor or trust in this State. 

lb. Sec. 3. Sec. 143. (516) Unlawful for Applicant for Teacher's 

Certificate to Obtain Question Sheets. — That it shall be 
unlawful for any applicant for a teacher's certificate in 
any wa}^ to gain possession of any question or question 
sheets, or information pertaining thereto to be used in 
the teachers' examination, except as provided for by law. 

lb. Sec. 4. Sec. 144. (517) Penalty for Violation of Preceding Sec- 

tion. — That any applicant convicted of the violation of 
the provisions of Section 516 shall be forever barred from 
holding a teachers' license in this State or from teaching 
any public school in this State. 

Ch. 6165. Sec. 145. (5868) Unlawful Use of Teachers' Examina- 

Secs. "^5 ' "*" tioii Questions. — It shall be unlawful for any person, or 
and 6. persons, to have in his possession, or to sell or to offer for 

sale, any of the questions or question sheets to be used in 
any teachers' examination in this State, or to use, or offer 
for use any of said questions for pecuniary gain : Pro- 
vided, however, That any person or persons named by the 



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State Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare or 
assist in preparing, printing and distributing, any such 
questions, and transportation companies in so far as the 
lawful handling of the same for purposes of transporta- 
tion, shall not be guilty of a violation of this section so 
far as it applies to the possession of such questions or 
question sheets ; but in no case shall this be construed to 
exempt any person, or persons, or any association of per- 
sons, from the penalty imposed for selling or offering for 
sale, or otherwise unlawfully divulging said questions or 
question sheets. Any person or persons, or association of 
persons, convicted of a violation of any of the provisions 
of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hun- 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not 
exceeding six months. 



Ch. 8544, 



CERTIFICATES TO GRADUATES OF STATE 
COLLEGES. 

Sec. 146. (518) Graduates of State Colleges Awarded 
Graduate State Certificates; Proviso. — All persons who |ec-^ ^^^^^^ 
have heretofore or may hereafter graduate from the Nor- amending 
mal or Collegiate Departments of the University of Flor- ||^; "qIq 
ida or the Florida State College for Women, who in the ^t^^t. 
regular examinations held in these institutions at the close 
of the Junior and Senior years, made or shall make a 
general average of not less than 85 per cent, on all sub- 
jects pursued and completed during these two years with 
a grade on no subject below 60 per cent, shall be awarded 
a graduate State certificate by the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction upon certified reports filed with him 
by the Presidents of these institutions. Provided, that 
graduates of the Collegiate Department shall devote 
three-twentieths of their time to the study of psychology 
and education ; and provided, further, in lieu of such time 
devoted to the study of psychology and education, twenty- 
four months' teaching experience in the public schools of 
this State may be accepted. 

Sec. 147. (519) Graduates of Certain Other Colleges ^b. sec. 2. 
Awarded Graduate State Certificate. — Any chartered col- 
lege or university in this State that v/ill submit to such in- 



Ch. 6540, 



spection and regulations as the State Board of Education 
and the State Board of Control may prescribe, and it being 
found that any such institution prescribes and sustains the 
same or an equivalent course in the normal or collegiate 
departments as maintained in the State University or the 
Florida State College for Women, the graduates of any 
and all such institutions in this State shall receive the 
same graduate State certificates as provided in Section 
518, as amended by Section 1 hereof, for graduates of the 
University of Florida and the Florida State College for 
"Women, and they shall be based upon like reports filed 
by the President or Presidents of any and all such insti- 
tutions. 

Sec. 148. (520) Colleges to Make Annual Report of 
Acts i!^i|. Graduates. — The president of each of the two State insti- 
by cb. TsVs, tutions named in Section 518, and the president of each 
sec^ 3^^^"' ^iicl every institution coming under the provisions of Sec- 
tion 519, shall make a certified annual report, as soon as 
practicable after each commencement, to the State Super- 
intendent of Public Instruction, which report shall show 
in separate lists the names of all pupils completing the 
normal and collegiate courses, and specify the subjects 
pursued and completed by each graduate both in the 
junior and senior years with the grade made on a per cent 
basis on each subject completed severally and separately: 
Provided, that the grades of the freshman and sophomore 
years of such graduates as complete a full four-year 
course in any of the colleges or universities coming under 
Sections 518 and 519, shall be reported in the same man- 
ner as the grades for the junior and senior years; pro- 
Added, further, that each report may show the grades 
made by each graduate in the high school course pursued 
previous to entering any of said universities or said col- 
leges naming the high school or institution of learning in 
which these grades were obtained. 

tb. Sec, 3. Sec. 149. (521) State Superintendent to Issue Grad- 
uate State Certificates. — It shall be the duty of the State 
Superintendent to issue to each such graduate a graduate 
State certificate, recording therein all subjects pursued 
and the grades made thereon, in the junior and senior 
years, as well as those reported for the high school course 
and the freshman and sophomore years, which certificates 
shall have all the privileges, rights and benefits conveyed 



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to those holding like certificates issued as the result of 
examination as provided by law. 

Sec. 150. (522) Life Graduate State Certificates. — A ib. see. 4. 
life graduate State certificate, good in any part of the 
State and of perpetual validity, shall be issued by the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, without ex- 
amination, to any teacher holding a graduate State cer- 
tificate who has successfully taught in this State for a 
period of twenty-four months under a graduate State 
certificate, and who shall present satisfactory endorse- 
ment from three persons holding life certificates showing 
eminent ability in teaching and school government, and 
the said life certificate shall have thereon the subjects 
enumerated in the graduate State certificate and shall 
have all the privileges, rights and benefits conveyed to 
those holding a life certificate issued as a result of an 
examination State certificates as provided by law. 



DUTIES AND POWERS OF TEACHEES. 

Sec. 151. (523) Every teacher is directed: 

First. — To labor faithfully and earnestly for the ad- ch. 3872, 
vancement of the pupils in their studies, deportment and g^^^ 29^^^' 
morals, and to embrace every opportunity to inculcate, 
by precept and example, the principles of truth, honesty 
and patriotism and the practice of every Christian virtue. 

Second. — To require the pupils to observe personal 
cleanliness, neatness, order, promptness, and gentility of 
manners, to avoid vulgarity and profanity, and to culti- 
vate in themi habits of industry and economy, a regard 
for the rights and feelings of others, and their own re- 
sponsibilities and duties as citizens. 

Third. — To see that the school house, and all things 
pertaining thereto are not unnecessarily defaced or in- 
jured. 

Fourth. — To enforce needful restrictions upon the con- 
duct of the pupils in or near the school house or grounds, 
avoiding at all times unnecessary severity and measures 
of punishment that are degrading in their tendency. 

Fifth. — To suspend pupils from school for ten days for 
gross immorality, misconduct or persistent violations of 



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the regulations, giving immediate notice to the parents 
or guardian of the pupil, apd to the school supervisor, of 
the suspension and the cause of it. 

Sixth. To hold a public examination at the close of 

each school term, either oral or written. 

Seventh. — To deliver up the keys and all school prop- 
erty to the supervisor on closing or suspending the school, 
and in all things to conform to the regulations of the de- 
partment. 

Acts nn7. Sec. 152. (524) Mother's Day; Duties of Teachers to 

and^"2."'' Observe. — That the first Friday in November of each and 

every year shall be set apart and known as Mother's Day 
in the State of Florida. It shall be the duty of all teach- 
ers in the public schools of the State of Florida to com- 
memorate Mother's Day with appropriate exercises. 

Sec. 153. (525) Teachers Exempt From Jury and Mili- 
^ , tary Duty. — No teacher while actually engaged in his pro- 
Acts 1889 fession shall be liable to military or jurv duty. 

Sec. 30. 

Sec. 154. (526) Temporary Absence of Teacher, How 
cii. 5207. Filled. — Whenever a teacher in a public school of this 
Acts. _^ 1903, State desires to be temporarily absent from duty, not to 
exceed three days, and shall be excused from duty during 
such absence by the county superintendent, or by the 
trustees or supervisor of such school, such teacher may 
provide a substitute, who shall be first approved by the 
county superintendent, trustees or supervisor of such 
school, and the pay of such absent teacher shall be left to 
the discretion of the board of public instruction, for the 
time of such absence ; but the pay of such substitute shall 
be provided for by the teacher whose place is thus taken. 
When any such teacher referred to herein is employed in 
a graded or high school, the principal of such school may 
approve of such substitute and excuse such teacher. 

lb.. Sec. 2. Sec. 155. (527) When Absence Exceeds Three Days. — 

When a teacher in a public school of this State is granted 
leave of absence from duty by the county superintendent 
or trustees of such school for a time exceeding three days, 
the temporary vacancy shall be filled by the county board 
of public instruction, or by the count}" superintendent, or 



55 

by the trustees of such school, and such substitute, if 
practicable, shall be one holding a teacher 's certificate for 
the grade to be supplied, and shall receive such pay as 
shall be agreed upon by the county board, or by the trus- 
tees making such appointment, before entering upon duty. 
The pay of the absent teacher shall cease during such 
absence. 

Sec. 156. (528) Forfeiture of Pay in Certain Cases. — u,. see. ; 
Any teacher absent without leave, shall forfeit pay for 
the time of such absence : Provided, An absence of not 
exceeding two days may, with the consent of the county 
superintendent, trustees or supervisor, be made up by 
such teacher teaching additional time : Provided, This 
section shall not apph^ to graded or high schools. 

Sec. 157. (529) Teacher's Report. — A teacher's monthly ch. 4902, 
report shall in every case, except as herein provided, be ^^^ts woi 
made for twenty days of actual teaching, and such report 
must be filed with the county superintendent before war- 
rant may be drawn for all or any part of such service : 
Provided, That a school holiday occurring in any scho- 
lastic month may be counted as one of the twenty days 
taught; and, Provided, That when a school term may 
embrace a fractional number of months, the last monthly 
report shall be made for a fractional part of a month and 
payment shall be made for such fraction of a month. 



Ch. 5200 



RURAL AND HIGH SCHOOL GRADES. 

Sec. 158. (530) Number of Years of Instruction. — The 

uniform system of public free schools of the State of Flor- |^J^ i^-^'^cii 
Ida shall provide for twelve consecutive school years of •">3S2, Acts 
instruction, exclusive of kindergartens, normal schools, ' ''' 
colleges and universities, and such other schools as may 
be designated or established by the Legislature. 

Sec. 159. (531) School Year. — Each school year of in- ch. .-,208, 
struction shall be designated as a grade, and no official -^^f^^* 2^-^'rh 
course of study shall recognize less than a school year of "'•"'^r- ^'^f'^ ,, 
eight months of instruction as constituting the work of 
a grade. 



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Ch. 5206. 
Acts 1903. 
Sec. 3 ; Ch. 
5382, Acts 
1905, Sec. 3 



Ch. 5206. 
Acts 1903. 
Sec. 4: Ch. 
5382. Acts 
1905 Sec. 4. 



Ch. 5206, 
Acts 1903, 
Sec. 5 : Ch. 
5382. Acts 
1905. Sec. 5. 



Ch. 5206, 
Acts 1903. 
Sec. 6; Ch. 
5382, Acts 
1905. Sec. 6. 



Ch. 5206, 
Acts 1903, 
Sec. 7; Ch. 
5382, Acts 
1905, Sec. 'i 



Ch. 7910, 
Acts 1919. 
Sec. 1. 



Sec. 160. (532) Grades of Instruction. — The first two 
grades shall be known as primary grades; the third, 
fourth, fifth and sixth grades shall be known as inter- 
mediate grades ; the seventh and eighth grades shall be 
known as grammar grades; the ninth and tenth gTades 
shall be known as junior high school grades, and the 
eleventh and twelfth grades shall be known as senior 
high school grades. 

Sec. 161. (533) Primary Grades. — Instruction shall be 
given in the primary grades in reading, spelling, lan- 
guage, physiology and hygiene, numbers and writing, and 
such lessons in music, drawing, geography, nature study, 
morals and manners, as may be provided for in the county 
course of study. 

Sec. 162. (534) Intermediate Grades. — Instruction shall 
be given in the intermediate grades in reading, spelling, 
language, arithmetic, geography, physiology, hygiene, 
writing, elementary science, and such lessons in music, 
drawing, history, nature study, morals and manners, as 
may be provided for in the county course of study. 

Sec. 163. (535) Grammar Grades. — Instruction shall be 
given in the grammar grades in reading, orthography, 
grammar, arithmetic, (oral and written,) science, physi- 
ology, geography, history and civil government of Flor- 
ida, and of the United States, and such lessons in music, 
drawing, morals and manners, manual training, domestic 
arts and, sciences, and agriculture, as may be provided for 
in the county course of study. 

Sec. 164. (536) High School Grades. — Instruction shall 
be given in the high school grades in such subjects and 
to such extent as shall be designated in the course of 
study for high schools hereinafter provided for. 

Sec. 165. Uniform Course of Study.— That the Uni- 
form Course of Study for the Elementary and High 
Schools issued by the State Department of Education in 
1918, be and the same is hereby adopted and validated 
and prescribed as the Course of Study for the Schools of 
the State of Florida ; provided, however, that said Course 
of Study shall be considered as containing and prescribing 
the minimum requirements only, and that nothing herein 
contained shall be so construed as to prevent or prohibit 



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any school or schools from pursuing or completing other, 
and additional or advanced work. 

Sec. 166. Appropriation for. — That the State Superin- ib., see. 2. 
tendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized and 
empowered to have said Course of Study revised and at 
least 5000 copies of same printed, and the sum of Twelve 
Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) be and the same is hereby 
appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not other- 
wise appropriated, to pay for such revision and printing. 



RURAL SCHOOL INSPECTORS. 

Sec. 167. (539) Appointment and Duties of Rural en. G539, 
School Inspectors.^ — Two rural school inspectors are here- ^^^^^ l^'^^' 
by created, who shall be appointed by the Governor upon 
the nomination of the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction and shall hold their positions subject to the 
State Board of Education. It shall be the duty of each 
of these inspectors to devote all of his time and attention 
to the work of visiting and supervising rural schools, and 
shall perform such educational work, when the rural 
schools are not in operation, as may be required of them 
by the State Board of Education, and shall work under 
the direction and advice of the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction to whom reports shall be made as re- 
quired. 

Sec. 168. (540) Salary of Rural School Inspectors. — ib. sec 1. 
rural school inspectors shall each receive an annual salary 
of two thousand dollars and contingent and traveling ex- 
penses not to exceed twelve hundred and fifty dollars 
each, which shall be paid in monthly installments upon 
requisition of the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion upon the Comptroller of the State. 



ARTICLE VI. 
SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
Sec. 169. (560) Special Tax Schools.— Bach county 



Ch. 4678. 



shall constitute a school unit ; all sub-divisions of a Acts 1899 
county for school purposes shall be designated as school ^''^' ^' 



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districts ; all school districts levying a school district tax 
shall hereafter be designated as special tax school dis- 
tricts, and all schools receiving any district tax, as special 
tax schools. 

lb., Sec. -1. Sec. 170. (561) Petition for Election, Etc.— It shall be 

the duty of the board of public instruction of any county 
to order an election to be held in any sub-division of any 
city, or incorporated town, community or sub-division of 
the county, at such time and place as said board may 
direct, whenever one-fourth of the qualified electors that 
pay a tax on real or personal property, and are resident 
in such city, incorporated town, community, or sub- 
division of the county, shall petition for such election, to 
determine whether such city, incorporated town, com- 
munity or sub-division of the county shall become a 
special tax school district for the purpose of levying and 
collecting a district school tax for the exclusive use of 
public free schools within the district ; at such election 
the following matters shall be determined by a majority 
of the ballots cast by electors qualified as herein pre- 
scribed, except that the three persons receiving the high- 
est vote at such election shall be declared school trustees 
of said district : First, whether the city, incorporated 
town, community or sub-division of the county shall be- 
come a special tax school district ; Second, who shall be 
the school trustees of said district : Third, the number of 
mills of district tax to be levied and collected annually 
for the two succeeding years. The three persons receiv- 
ing the highest number of votes cast shall be declared the 
trustees elected for the special tax school district : Pro- 
vided, a majority of all the votes cast be in favor of cre- 
ating such special tax district, who shall serve for the 
next ensuing two years and perform the duties herein- 
after prescribed. 

Chap. S35.5, Sec. 171. (562'i Boundaries of District. — The petition 
Sec. 1, Acts mentioned in the preceding section shall prescribe the 
amending boundaries of the sub-divisions of any city or incorpo- 
Rev. ifen."* rated town or community, or sub-division of the county 
Stat. intended to be formed into a special tax school district. 

The Board of Public Instruction is hereby authorized and 
required to inspect the said petition and if such inspec- 
tion- discloses that it embraces territory that would be 
more equitably and properly served by some other exist- 
ing public school in the said county, not embraced in such 



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territory, it is hereby made the duty of the said Board of 
Public Instruction to revise the boundaries of such pro- 
posed Special Tax School District before ordering any 
such election, but shall in no case include territory not in- 
cluded in the original petition, and notice of such change 
or revision shall be given in the notice of election. Spe- 
cial Tax School Districts created under this Act shall con- 
tinue until disestablished or changed by like proceedings 
as those by which they were created. The petition pro- 
vided for by the preceding section shall be published once . 
a v^^eek for four successive weeks in some newspaper pub- 
lished in the county of general circulation throughout the 
county and the publication when stated in such petition 
will be presented to such boards. In case there shall be 
no newspaper published in the county such petition and 
notice shall be posted in the manner provided in the next 
section for the posting of notices of such election. 

Sec. 172. When Boards May Change Boundaries of m.. see. 2. 
Special Tax School Districts. — That when complaint is 
made to any Board of Public Instruction in this State that 
any Special Tax School District has been created in such 
a manner that it embraces territory that properly belongs 
to and would be more easily and beneficially served by a 
public school, not in a Special Tax School District or by 
a public school, in some other special tax school district, 
near or adjacent thereto, it is hereby made the duty of 
the Board of Public Instruction of the county in which 
such Special Tax School Districts lie, before the next 
election after such complaint, held as provided in Section 
567 of the Revised General Statutes of Florida, to revise 
and change the boundaries of said Special School Dis- 
tricts to, as near as possible, distribute the territory cov- 
ered thereby equitably and beneficially. Notice of such 
change of boundary shall be given in the same manner 
that notice of election for the formation of such Special 
Tax School Districts is given and shall be given in con- 
nection with the next succeeding election for the election 
of trustees and the assessment of millage, which last elec- 
tion shall be held in the Special Tax School District or 
Districts as modified or changed. Provided, the provi- 
sions of this Act shall not apply to any Special Tax School 
District which shall have an outstanding bond issue. 



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Chap. 40TS, Sec. 173. (563) Board of Public Instruction to Give 
ietst'f 1899. Notice and Appoint Inspectors. — It shall be the duty of 
the board of public instruction of the county to cause a 
notice of said election to be published once a week for 
four successive weeks prior thereto in a newspaper pub- 
lished within the county, and having a general circulation 
throughout the county ; but if no newspaper be published 
in such county, then it shall cause five written or printed 
notices of said election to be posted in five public places 
within the territory in which the election is ordered. It 
shall also be the duty of the county board of public in- 
struction to appoint inspectors and clerks for said elec- 
tion, whose duty shall be the same as those of similar 
officers in general elections, except as herein stated. 

lb.. Sec. 5. Sec. 174. (564) Canvass of Returns. — The board of 

public instruction shall canvass the returns of election as 
made to it by the inspectors and clerks of election, and 
declare the results at the next regular meeting of said 
board, or at a special meeting called for that purpose. 

lb., Sec. 6. Sec. 175. (565) Election. — All special tax school dis- 

trict elections shall be held and conducted in the manner 
prescribed by law for holding general elections, except 
as provided in this article, and it is hereby made the duty 
of the supervisor of registration of any county, to fur- 
nish upon payment for such service to the county board 
of public instruction, on demand, a certified list of the 
qualified voters residing in a special tax school district, 
or the territory to be created into a special tax school 
district, that have paid a tax on personal or real property 
for the year next preceding any such special tax election. 

lb., Sec. 7. Sec. 176. (566) Who Entitled to Vote; Expenses.— All 
qualified voters residing within the territory sought to be 
made a special tax school district that pay a tax on real 
or personal property shall be entitled to vote in said elec- 
tion, and a majority of the votes cast shall determine any 
matter voted upon, pertaining to a special tax school dis- 
trict. The cost of the publication of the notice and of the 
election itself, shall be paid by the county board of public 
instruction out of the first moneys collected from the 
special tax district. 

lb., Sec. 8. Sec. 177. (567) Election Bi-ennially.— Elections shall 

be held bi-ennially in each special tax school district, as 
near as practicable upon the anniversarj' of the original 



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election under the direction of the county board of public 
instruction, to determine who shall be trustees for the 
next succeeding two years, and the number of mills of 
district school tax to be levied for each of said years ; 
said election shall be held under the same rules and regu- 
lations, and qualifications of electors shall be the same as 
prescribed for those voting in the original election cre- 
ating a special tax school district. 

Sec. 178. (568) Supervisor Superseded by Trustees. — ib., sec 9. 
Whenever a special tax school district is created and trus- 
tees are elected, they shall have the supervision of all the 
public schools within said district. The position of super- 
visor shall be superseded by that of trustees, and the 
duties prescribed by law for the supervisors shall be per- 
formed by the trustees. The powers of trustees shall not 
be those of control, but of supervision only, and shall 
extend to all the public schools within the special tax 
district. Any trustee failing to discharge the duties of 
the position shall be removed, after due notice to such 
trustee, by the county board of public instruction, and 
all vacancies occurring in the board of trustees from any 
cause, shall be filled for the unexpired term by the county 
board of public instruction, upon nomination by the 
patrons of the schools. 

Sec. 179. (569) Under Control of Comity Board of ib., see. i«. 
Public Instruction and County Superintendent. — All pub- 
lic schools conducted within a special tax school district 
shall be under the direction and control of the country 
board of public instruction and county superintendent as 
in other districts, and subject to the same laws, rules and 
regulations prescribed for the conduct of other schools, 
except that the trustees shall have the power to nominate 
to the county board of public instruction teachers for all 
schools within such special district: Provided, That no 
person be nominated for teacher who does not hold a 
teacher's certificate unimpaired by suspension, revoca- 
tion or limitation, or that will not remain in full force for 
the term of school, and obtained in compliance with the 
laws of this State. The county board of public instruc- 
tion shall have the right to reject any teacher nominated, 
and in case the second nomination of a teacher for any 
position be not ratified, the said board shall then proceed, 
on its own motion, to fill vacancies in the teaching force 
in any school in the special tax school district. 



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lb., Sec. 11. Sec. 180. (570) Application of School Funds. — The 

board of trustees shall have the further right to say what 
proportion of the school funds raised within the district 
shall be applied in any year to buildings, repairs on build- 
ings, to school libraries, to salaries of teachers and to 
other educational purposes : Provided, That they shall 
make a fair and equitable distribution of the funds among 
all the schools in the special tax school district, which 
shall be shown in their itemized estimate. 

lb., Sec. 12. Sec. 181. (571) Duty of Trustees as to Money To Be 

Raised. — It shall be the duty of these trustees, on or be- 
fore the first day of June in each year, to prepare an 
itemized estimate, showing the amount of money neces- 
sary and likely to be raised for the supplement of the 
county school funds appropriated to the district for the 
next ensuing scholastic year, and to certify therein the 
rate of millage voted .to be assessed and collected upon 
the taxable property within the special tax school district 
for that year. This estimate shall set forth clearly the 
apportionment of money raised within the district, pro- 
rated to each school within the district, stating the 
amount that will be applied to the salaries of teachers, 
buildings, furniture or for other educational purposes. 
It shall also state the number of miles of railroad track 
and telegraph lines within the boundaries of the district. 
This itemized estimate shall be made in triplicate, one 
copy to be filed with the clerk of the board of county com- 
missioners, one copy with the Comptroller of the State, 
one copy with the county board of public instruction : 
Provided, That where there are no railroads or telegraph 
lines in such district such itemized estimate need not be 
furnished to the Comptroller. 

lb., Sec. 12. Sec. 182. (572) Duty of County Commissioners. — It 
shall be the duty of the county commissioners to order 
the assessor to assess, and the collector to collect the 
amount legalh^ assessed upon the property of the special 
district, at the rate of millage designated by the board of 
trustees, and pay the same to the county treasurer. It 
shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the State to assess 
all railroads and railroad property together with tele- 
graph lines and telegraph property situated in such spe- 
cial tax school district and to collect the taxes thereon in 
the same manner as required b}^ law to assess and collect 



909, 



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said taxes for State and county purposes, and to remit 
the same to the treasurers of the counties, to be by. them 
held to the credit of each special tax school district fund 
and to be paid out as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 183. (573) Tax Assessor to Furnish School Board ^ts'iS. 
Amount Special District School Tax Assessed.— Tha^ it see. i." ' 
shall be the duty of the county tax assessors to furnish to 
the boards of public instruction of their respective coun- 
ties on or before the first day of October of each year the 
total amount of special district school tax assessed in each 
and every special tax school district. 

Sec. 184. (574) Duty of County Board of Public In- c^.^-^fTS^ 
struction.— It shall be the duty of the county board of sec. 12. ' 
public instruction to add the amount set apart for the 
salaries of teachers in each school within the special tax 
school district to the county appropriation made for that 
school, and upon this determine the salaries to be paid 
teachers and the length of the term that the school shall 
continue, and contract with teachers for the full term 
that said fund, arising from both county appropriation 
and the special tax fund, will sustain the school. The 
part of this fund arising from the special tax shall be 
paid to the teachers upon the order of the county board, 
based upon reports approved by the trustees, the same 
as other school funds are paid upon the endorsement of 
school supervisors. 

Sec. 185. (575) Special Tax Fund. — The special tax ib., see. 13. 
fund set apart by the board of trustees for the payment 
of teachers shall not be subject to requisition for any. 
other purpose by said trustees, the fund estimated for 
other educational purposes shall be paid out by warrants 
of the board of public instruction of the county upon 
the county treasurer, and said warrants to be based upon 
requisitions made by the board of trustees, accompanied 
by itemized bills for things purchased or work performed. 
All special funds collected within school district shall be 
disbursed solely for school purposes within the district in 
which the tax is collected, and, as near as practicable, in 
the year in which the tax is collected, u|)on the recom- 
mendation of the board of trustees: Provided, That the 
trustees shall make no contract with any of its' members 
embracing any monetary consideration. 



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lb., Sec. 14. Sec. 186. (576) Trustees Shall Be a Corporation. — The 

trustees of any school district shall be a corporation and 
may hold property, sue and be sued, and perform other 
corporate functions, and perform the usual duties neces- 
sary to provide buildings, repair the same, and to pur- 
chase libraries and other school appliances : Provided, 
That no debt shall be created without the approval of 
the county board of public instruction. 

No claim against the funds of a special tax school district can be en- 
forced by mandamus unless approval of the claim by the county board of 
public instruction be first shown. Pennock v. State, 61 Fla. 383, 54 So. 
1004. 

A special tax school district and its trustees have a right to file a 
bill to secure the reasonable use of a school building erected by the dis- 
trict for school purposes. Special Tax School Dist. v. Smith, 61 Fla. 
728, 54 So. 376. 

lb.. Sec. 16. Sec. 187. (577) Non-resident Children May Attend.— 

Children residing outside of any special tax school dis- 
trict shall not attend school in any such district without 
the consent of the trustees thereof, and of the county 
board of public instruction: Provided, That nothing in 
this act shall be so construed as to prevent attendance 
from an adjoining county provided the county school 
board of such adjoining county shall pay a pro rata share 
of such attendance. Such pro rata share to be estimated 
by the trustees of such school where such attendance is 
made : Provided, further. That pupils from other districts 
or sub-districts shall be subject to same conditions as 
pupils from other counties as herein provided for. 

lb., Sec. 17. Sec. 188. (578) Form of Ballot. — Each voter voting at 
any such election shall vote but one ballot, and the same 
shall be written, or printed in black ink on plain white 
paper, and be substantially of the following form, accord- 
ing as he may desire to vote upon any, or all of the ques- 
tions submitted : 

For (or against) Special Tax School District 

School Trustees (stating their names) 



Maximum tax levy mills. 

(Board of trustees empowered to establish kindergar- 
tens. See Sections 74, 75, 76.) 



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CONSOLIDATION OF SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL 
DISTRICTS. 

Sec. 189. Districts May Consolidate. — That any two or ^.j^p 7913 
more contiguous Special Tax School Districts in the State |cts 1917, 
of Florida may be consolidated as hereinafter authorized. 

Sec. 190. Procedure for Consolidation. — It shall be the ib. sec. 2. 
duty of the Board of Public Instruction of any county to 
order an election to be held throughout any two or more 
contiguous Special Tax School Districts at such time and 
place as said Board may direct whenever one-fourth of 
the qualified electors that pay a tax on real or personal 
property and are residents in such Special Tax School Dis- 
trict shall petition for such election to determine whether 
said districts shall become consolidated into a single Spe- 
cial Tax School District for the purpose of levying and 
collecting a district school tax for the exclusive use of 
the public free schools in the entire area included within 
the said district and of having the other powers of a 
Special Tax School District under the Constitution and 
Laws of Florida. Such petition shall contain one-fourth 
of the qualified electors residing in each of the districts 
proposed to be consolidated. At said election the follow- 
ing matters shall be voted upon and determined: 

First. — Majority Vote in Each District RecLuired. — 

Whether the said districts shall be consolidated and shall 
become a single Special Tax School District. To author- 
ize the consolidation of said district it shall be required 
that at said election a majority of the votes cast in each 
of the districts proposed to be consolidated shall be in 
favor of consolidation. 

Second. — Trustees Elected. — Who shall be trustees of 
the proposed consolidated district, and the three persons 
receiving the highest number of votes cast shall be de- 
clared the trustees elected for said consolidated Special 
Tax School District, if the result of said election be in 
favor of consolidation, and shall serve for the next en- 
suing two years. 

Third. — Millage Voted. — The number of mills of dis- 
trict tax to be levied and collected annually for the two 
succeeding years within the proposed consolidated dis- 
trict for tlie exclusive use of the public free schools 

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thereof. If said election be in favor of consolidation, the 
number of mills of district tax for the two succeeding 
years receiving the highest number of votes shall be 
levied and collected in said district. 

lb., Sec. 3. Sec. 191. Existing Laws Apply. — Except so far as in 
conflict with the provisions of this Act, the existing pro- 
visions of law relating to the calling, holding and can- 
vassing and determining the result of elections for the 
creation of Special Tax School Districts, shall apph' to 
elections provided to be held under the terms and pro- 
visions of this Act. 

lb., Sec. 4. Sec. 192. Consolidation When Effective. — When the 
result of any election held under the provisions of this 
Act shall be in favor of consolidation, the districts voting 
in favor of such consolidation shall become one entire 
district from and after the expiration of thirty days after 
the entry of the Board of Public Instruction of the county 
in which such districts are situated in the minutes of said 
Board of the result of such election. 

lb.. Sec. 41/2. Sec. 193. Liabilities and Resources Merged. — When 
two or more Special Tax School Districts shall be con- 
solidated as authorized by the provisions of this Act, the 
entire consolidated district shall become liable for the 
payment of all bonds and other indebtedness of each of 
the districts so consolidated, and the entire area of the 
consolidated district shall be subject to be taxed for the 
payment thereof. The consolidated district shall become 
entitled to all of the funds and property of the districts 
consolidated. 

lb.. Sec. 5. Sec. 194. Taxes Levied Not Impaired. — Where any tax 
school districts become consolidated under the provisions 
of this Act, no tax that shall have been levied or assessed 
prior to such consolidation in any one or more of the dis- 
tricts mcluded within the consolidated district shall be 
impaired by such consolidation, but subsequent to such 
consolidation all taxes thereafter levied and assessed in 
said consolidated district for the support exclusively of 
the schools of such district shall be in accordance with 
the result of the election creating such consolidated dis- 
trict or subsequent elections held therein. 



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Sec. 195. Existing Laws Not Repealed. — Except so far 
as in conflict with the provisions of this Act, the existing 
provisions of law relating to Special Tax School Districts, 
the powers and duties of the trustees thereof and County 
Boards of Public Instruction, and the County Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction, the levy and assessment of 
taxes and the issuance and sale of bonds by Special Tax 
School Districts shall apply to any consolidated district 
created under the provisions of this Act. 



SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT BONDS. 

Sec. 196. (579) Issuance of Bonds for Certain Pur- 'gJ^P-i'^^IJ'tg 
poses.— That whenever the residents of a special tax of i92i, 
school district in any county in this State shall desire the l™*^"^!^"^ 
issuance of bonds by said special tax school district for Rev. Gen. 
the purpose of acquiring, building, enlarging, furnishing, ' '^ " 
or otherwise improving buildings or school grounds or for 
any other exclusive use of the public free schools within 
any such special tax school district, they shall present 
to the county board of public instruction of the county 
in which the said district is located a petition signed by 
not less than twenty-five per cent, of the duly qualified 
electors residing within the said special tax school dis- 
trict, setting forth in general terms the amount of the 
bonds desired to be issued and the purpose thereof and 
that the proceeds derived from the sale of such bonds 
shall be used for the purposes set forth in the said peti- 
tion ; provided, that in special tax school districts located 
wholly or partially in cities of 25,000 population, or more, 
according to the last Federal Census, the said petition 
may be dispensed with and the proposition of issuing 
bonds for the purposes as herein outlined may be initiated 
by the board of public instruction of the said county' or 
by the Trustees of said Special Tax District, or by both 
bodies. 

Sec. 197. (580) Amount of Bonds, Rate of Interest, rb., sec. 2. 
Etc. — At their first meeting after the receipt of the said 
petition the county board of public instruction shall de- 
termine by resolution to be entered in its records what 
amount of bonds is required for the purposes set forth in 
the said petition, the rate of interest to be paid thereon 



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and the time when the principal and interest of such 
bonds shall be due and when payable. 

[b., Sec. 3. Sec. 198. (581) Publication of Resolution. — It shall be 

the dut3- of the county board of public instruction, upon 
the adoption of the resolution provided for in Section 
580, forthwith to cause said resolution to be published 
once each week for four successive weeks in some news- 
paper published in said special tax school district if there 
be a newspaper published in said district, and if no such 
newspaper be published therein, then in some newspaper 
published in the county in which said district is located. 

lb., Sec. 4. Sec. 199. (582) Notice of Election; Qualification of 
Electors. — The said county board of public instruction 
shall also at the meeting at which is passed the resolution 
provided for in Section 580, also order that an election 
shall be held in said special tax school district to deter- 
mine whether or not there shall be issued by said district 
the bonds provided for in said resolution, in which elec- 
tion only the duly qualified electors thereof who are free- 
holders shall vote and prior to the time of holding said 
election the said county board shall cause to be published 
once each week for four successive weeks in a newspaper 
published in said district a notice of the holding of said 
election which shall specify the time and place or places 
of the holding thereof, or if there be no newspaper pub- 
lished in said district, then in some newspaper published 
in the county in which said district is located. 

One who has an immediate beneficial ownership interest, legal or 
equitable, in the title to a fee simple estate in land, may be regarded as 
a "freeholder" under this section. Dean v State, 74 Fla. 277, 77 So. 107. 

lb.. Sec. 5. Sec. 200. (583) Conduct of Election; Form of Ballot; 
Appointment of Inspectors; Canvassing- Returns. — The 

election provided for in the preceding section shall be 
held at the place or several places in said special tax 
school district where the last general election was held 
throughout said district, unless the said county board of 
public instruction shall otherwise order, and the said 
county board of public instruction shall appoint inspec- 
tors for the said election and cause to be prepared and 
furnished to said inspectors the ballots to be used at said 
election ; the form of the ballots for such election shall be 
"For Bonds" or "Against Bonds." The inspectors shall 
make returns to the said county board of public instruc- 



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tion immediately after the said election, and the said 
county board shall hold a special meeting as soon there- 
after as practicable for the purpose of canvassing said 
election returns and shall determine and certify to the 
result thereof. 

Sec. 201. (584) Result of Election Held.— If it shall fb., sec 6. 
appear by the result of said election that a majority of 
the votes cast shall be "For Bonds" the said county 
board shall be authorized and required to issue the bonds 
authorized by said election for the purposes specified in 
the said resolution as published, not to exceed the amount 
therein named; but if the majoritj^ of the votes cast shall 
have been "Against Bonds," no bonds shall be issued. 

Sec. 202. (585) If Election Adverse, No Second Elec- ib. see 7. 
tion Within One Year. — If the result of the said election 
shall be adverse to the issuance of said bonds, no election 
shall be held for such purpose within one year thereafter. 

Sec. 203. (586) Receiving Bids and Sale of Bonds. — In [b., sec 8. 

case the issuance of bonds shall be authorized by the said 
election, the county board of public instruction shall 
cause notice to be given by publication in some newspaper 
published in the said county, that said county board will 
receive bids for the purchase of said bonds at the office 
of the superintendent of public instruction of said county, 
on or before the expiration of thirty days from the first 
publication of said notice. Such notice shall specify the 
amount of bonds offered for sale, the rate of interest and 
the time when the principal and installments of interest 
shall be due and payable, and any or all bids may be re- 
jected by the board if they deem it for the interest of 
said district so to do, and they may cause a new notice 
to be given in like manner inviting other bids for said 
bonds. Said bonds shall be disposed of to the highest 
bidder. 

Sec. 204. (587) Bidders To Give Security.— The said ib., see. 9. 
board of public instruction may require of all bidders for 
said bonds that they give security by bond or by a deposit 
to said county Board that the bidder shall comply with 
the terms of the bid, and any bidder whose bid shall be 
accepted shall be liable to the said county board for all 
damages on account of the non-performance of the terms 
of such bid or to a forfeiture of the deposit required by 
said county board. 



Sec. 1. 



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lb., Sec. 10. Sec. 205. (588) Form and Denomination of Bonds. — 

The county board of public instruction may prescribe tlie 
form and denomination of the bonds to be issued and 
such bonds may be issued witli or without interest cou- 
pons as may be deemed expedient. 

[b., Sec. 11, Sec. 206. (589) Proceeds; How Expended. — The pro- 
as amended cecds derived from the sale of said bonds shall be held 
Acts 1915, ' by the county board of public instruction, and shall be 
expended by the said Board for the purpose for which 
said bonds were authorized for said special school tax 
district, and shall be held and expended in the manner 
following : 

First. — The board of public instruction shall deposit, 
or cause to be deposited, the proceeds arising from the 
sale of bonds, together with the interest in sinking fund 
collected for said bonds in any bank or banks of the dis- 
trict issuing bonds that will agree to pay said board two 
per cent on daily balances of all funds so deposited, and 
four per cent on all said funds deposited for a period of 
three months or longer, and give the said board a surety 
bond, as hereinafter prescribed, for protection of said de- 
posits, provided that the board shall divide the deposits 
herein mentioned equitably among the banks of the dis- 
trict that will meet the above conditions, or in case no 
bank in the district will so qualify, then the board shall 
deposit the money in the banks of the county that will 
qualify as above provided, or, in case no bank in the 
county will qualify, then the board will deposit same in 
any bank in the State that will so qualify ; and any bank 
or banks before receiving any moneys as herein provided 
shall file a written offer with the said board guaranteeing 
to pay two per cent on daily balances and four per cent 
on time balances, and shall make surety bond in some 
fidelity company duly authorized to do business in this 
State, to be approved and in an amount to be fixed by 
the Comptroller of the State. Said bond shall be to the 
Governor of the State of Florida, and shall insure that 
the said bank shall faithfully discharge duties imposed 
upoii it on account of its acting as depositor}^, and shall 
further insure the safe-keeping, accounting for and pay- 
ing over by said bank upon demand all money that may 
come into its hands by virtue of its acting as depository 
and each bank acting as depository as herein provided. 



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shall make a monthly statement to the board of public 
instruction, showing amount of money on hand to the 
credit of each fund at the beginning of each month, the 
amount received for each fund, the amount expended 
from each fund, the amount earned on daily balances and 
time deposits in accordance with the terms of contract ; 
which amounts so earned shall be credited by the board 
of public instruction to the interest and sinking fund of 
the district on whose deposit the said interest was earned ; 
provided, that the money in time deposits account shall 
not be subject to check until transferred to daily balance 
account ; and provided, further, that the board shall have 
power at all times to transfer money from either account 
to the other. 

Second. — The bank acting as depository as herein pro- 
vided shall pay out any and all money coming into its 
hands by virtue of its acting as said depository, upon a 
check drawn by the board of public instruction, signed 
by the chairman of said board ,and countersigned by the 
secretary of said board, with the seal of said board 
thereto affixed, and the said board shall number each 
check with its proper number, and a list certified by the 
secretarj^ of said board giving the number and amount of 
each check, with the name of the person in whose favor 
the check shall be issued, shall be furnished to the de- 
pository within five days after the same shall have been 
issued, and the depository shall not pay out any checks 
before receiving said certified list from the secretary of 
the board of public instruction stating the number and 
amount of each check and to whom issued ; and it shall 
be the duty of the board of public instruction to deter- 
mine by resolution to be entered in its minutes the checks 
to be issued, to keep a record of all checks in the order 
in which they are issued, with the numbers of the same, 
the person to whom each check is drawn, and the number 
and purpose for which each check is drawn, and no money 
shall be drawn from the depository herein provided for 
except by check issued as hereinbefore provided in this 
Article. 

Sec. 207. (590) Advertising and Awarding- Oontract ch. 6542, 
for Building or Improvements. — As soon as practicable gg^*^^^^^^' 
after the said bond issue has been voted upon and author- 
ized, if the same be for the purpose of acquiring, enlarg- 



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ing, furnishing or otherwise improving school buildings, 
the county board of public instruction, upon the recom- 
mendation of the trustees of such special tax school dis- 
trict, shall prepare proper plans and specifications there- 
for ; and after advertising the same in the manner pre- 
scribed by law, shall award the contract for such build- 
ing or improvements to the lowest responsible bidder 
therefor; provided that the contract price shall not ex- 
ceed the amount of the bonds authorized to be issued and 
provided, further, that the county board may within their 
discretion reject any and all bids received if they deem 
the same expedient and re-advertise the contract until a 
satisf actor}' bid is received and accepted. 

lb., Sec. 13. Sec. 208. (591) Substance of Contract; Contractors 
to Give Bond. — Upon accepting a satisfactory bid, the 
county board of public instruction shall enter into a con- 
tract with the party or parties whose bid has been ac- 
cepted, such contract shall contain the specifications of 
the work to be done or the material to be furnished, the 
time limit in which the construction is to be completed 
or material furnished for improvement, the time and 
amounts in which payments are to be made upon said 
contract and the penalty to be paid by the contractor for 
any failure to comply with the terms of the said contract. 
The contractor shall also enter into a good and sufficient 
bond with the said county board of public instruction for 
the faithful execution of the said contract, the sureties 
upon which and the sufficiency and provisions of which 
bonds shall be determined by the said county board. 

lb., Sec. 14. Sec. 209. (592) Bonds for Other Purposes Than Build- 
ings, etc. ; Disbursing Proceeds. — If any special tax school 
district shall authorize, as herein provided for, the is- 
suance of bonds for a purpose other than acquiring, build- 
ing, enlarging, furnishing, or other improvement of 
school buildings, the county board of public instruction 
may and shall have the authority to disburse the proceeds 
derived from the sale of such bonds in such manner as 
may be necessary and proper to carry out the purposes 
and objects for which the said bond issue was authorized. 

is'amendJd' ^®^' ^^^' i^^^^ County Commissioners to Levy Tax 

by ch. 6967, for Bonds ; Sinking Fund. — Whenever any special school 

tec.^ 2.^Mrst. ^^^ district bonds shall have been issued in pursuance of 

this Article, it shall be the duty of the board of county 



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commissioners of said county to levy annually a tax upon 
all real and personal property, railroad, telegraph and 
telephone line, owned or situated within said special 
school tax district, not to exceed five mills on the dollar 
in any one year sufficient to raise and pay the interest on 
said special tax school district bonds and sufficient ta 
create the sinking fund for the payment of principal of 
said bonds at maturity of same, which sinking fund shall 
be provided for by resolution of the county board of 
public instruction before the issuing of any bonds. All 
special tax school district taxes for the payment of in- 
terest and to create a sinking fund for the retirement of 
said bonds shall be assessed, equalized and collected upon 
taxable property in the special tax school district by the 
same officers and in the same manner as is provided by 
law for the assessment, equalization and collection of 
other county taxes. And the board of county commis- 
sioners shall levy and have collected from all taxable 
property within the special tax school district a special 
tax herein provided for, and until all bonds issued in 
pursuance hereof shall be paid and retired, and all money 
now in the hands of any county treasurer of this State 
which has been collected on account of the interest and 
sinking fund for any special tax school district, or which 
may hereafter be turned over to any county treasurer for 
the purposes mentioned above shall be immediately 
turned over to the bank selected as said depository for 
that district's funds by the county treasurer upon his 
being so notified hy the board of public instruction that 
the said depository has been selected and has qualified as 
herein provided, and provided that after the first day of 
January, A. D. 1917, it shall be the duty of the county 
tax collector to turn over to the said depository as desig- 
nated by the board of public instruction all money col- 
lected for the interest and sinking fund of all bonds 
issued and outstanding against any such special school 
tax district. 

Sec. 211. (594) Sinking Fund May Be Invested in Cer- ib., see 
tain Bonds; Attorney-General to Pass on Legality of 
Bonds To Be Purchased. — The county board of public 
instruction shall have power at all times to invest the 
sinking fund collected for the retirement of any bonds 
of any district in the bonds of another special school tax 
district of the same county; provided, said bonds shall 



Second. 



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be purchased at par, and the board shall have further 
right to invest the sinking fund of any district in any 
municipal or county bonds of the county under its juris- 
diction, provided that the said bonds shall be of such date 
and maturity that they will mature on or before the date 
of the maturity of the district's bonds, with whose sink- 
ing fund they have been purchased, and provided, fur- 
ther, that it shall be the duty of the county board of 
public instruction before investing the sinking fund as 
herein provided to secure the opinion of the Attorney- 
General of the State of Florida, approving the legality 
and validity of the bonds to be so purchased, and no 
bonds shall ever be purchased hy any board which have 
not been entirely and fully approved by the opinion of 
the Attorney-General as herein provided ; provided, al- 
ways, that the board shall have the right to keep the 
sinking fund on deposit earning the rate of interest 
agreed upon until such time as in their judgment they 
may be able to invest it in bonds to better advantage as 
herein provided for. 

lb.. Sec. 2, Sec. 212. (595) Animal Reports To Be Pubiislied. — It 

Third, 

shall be the duty of the board of public instruction to 
prepare annually on or before the 30th day of June of 
each year, a separate report for each district having 
issued bonds, in which they shall state the amount of 
money received for said bonds, the amount of money ex- 
pended from the proceeds, the amomit on hand, the 
amount of money collected for interest and sinking fund 
of said bonds, the amount expended, the amount invested 
and enumerating the kind and amount of securities held 
therefor, describing the same separately and giving such 
other information as may be necessary to fully explain 
the financial condition of the district, which report shall 
be published at length in a newspaper of general circula- 
tion of the district or the county in Avhich the district is 
located. 



Cli. 6542, 
Acts 191.3 
Sec. 16. 



Sec. 213. (596) Additional Bond Issues. — After the 
issuance by any special tax school district of bonds in 
the manner herein authorized, the qualified electors of 
such special tax school district may thereafter, from time 
to time, in the manner herein provided for, authorize one 
or more additional bond issues as they may determine 
upon. 



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Sec. 214. (597) Disposition of Surplus of Bond Issue. — ib., see it. 
Should there remain any of the proceeds of the sale of 
special tax school district bonds after the purpose and 
object for which the said bonds were issued shall have 
been carried out and performed by the said board of 
public instruction, the said surplus then shall be held by 
the said county board and paid out by said board for the 
exclusive use of the public free schools within such spe- 
cial school district as said county board may deem reason- 
able and proper ; provided, such disposition be first recom- 
mended by the trustees of said special tax school district. 

Sec. 215. (598) Bonds May Be Validated. — When any ib., see. is. 
special tax school district shall have authorized and issued 
bonds in the manner provided for under the terms of this 
Article, such bonds shall be subject to validation in the 
manner provided for in Article 7, Chapter 11, Title 3, 
Second Division of these Revised General Statutes. 

Sec. 216. (599) District May Be Abolished or Limits ch. 5389. 
Changed; Proviso. — That any special tax school district tea i.^^*^' 
may at any time under the provisions hereinafter men- 
tioned abolish or extend or contract the limits of such 
special tax school district ; provided, that no special tax 
school district shall be abolished while it has any out- 
standing indebtedness without first making provision for 
the liquidation of such outstanding indebtedness. 

Sec. 217. (600) District Abolished or Changed by Ma- ib., sec 2. 
jority Vote. — That any special tax school district laaj be 
abolished or the limits thereof extended or contracted by 
a majority vote at an election called by the board of pub- 
lic instruction of the county for the purpose, after publi- 
cation of such notice as is required to create such special . 
tax district, at which election the qualifications of voters 
shall be the same as in elections to create special tax 
school districts. . 



SCHOOL TEXT BOOK LAW. 

Sec, 218. Book Commission Created; Duties. — The chap. sooo. 
Board of Commissioners of State Institutions shall be t^*^ ^^ ^^^^• 
and is hereby constituted the State School Book Commis- 
sion, hereafter designated in this Act as the Book Com- 
mission, whose duty it shall be to select and adopt a uni- 



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form series or system of school books for use in the public 
schools of the State of Florida, to enter into contracts 
with publishers for furnishing said books at stipulated 
prices, to enforce the use of said books, and to see that 
all contracts are faithfully executed. 

lb., See. 2. Sec. 219. Adoptions for Eight Years. — All adoptions 
under this Act shall be for a period of eight years, dating 
from July 1st after the adoption ; and all contracts with 
publishers for supplying school books shall terminate on 
June 30th, eight years after the adoption; provided, that 
contracts now existing with publishers for supplying high 
school text-books, expiring September 15th, 1922, and 
contracts for supplying text-books for the elementary 
schools, expiring September 22nd, 1924, shall not be in- 
validated by the provisions of this Act. 

lb., Sec. 3. Sec. 220. State Superintendent to Submit List of Books 
for Adoption; Regulations. — On or before the first day of 
November of any year preceding the expiration of con- 
tracts with publishers for supplying either high school or 
elementary school text-books, the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction shall submit to the Book Commis- 
sion for its approval a list of subjects on which books are 
to be adopted deemed needful to meet the demands of the 
State course of study for either high schools or elemen- 
tary schools, to be determined by the expiration of the 
contracts for furnishing books for either grade of schools. 
Immediately following the approval of the list of subjects 
on which books are to be adopted, the Book Commission 
shall be authorized to adopt all needful regulations gov- 
erning the advertisement for bids ; when and how prices 
for furnishing books shall be submitted ; when, how, and 
the number of sample books to be submitted ; the nature, 
kind, and amount of cash deposits and bonds which shall 
be required of bidders or publishers seeking adoptions ; 
and any other regulations not otherwise specified in this 
Act and deemed needful in the adoptions for supplying 
books for the schools of the State and in securing adopted 
books for use in the schools ; such regulations shall have 
the force and effect of law. 

lb.. Sec. 4. Sec. 221. Sub-Commission To Be Appointed. — Prior to 
the date set by the Book Commission for the filing of 
sample books by bidders or publishers, the Governor shall 
appoint, upon the nomination of the State Superintendent 



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of Public Instruction, a School Book Sub-Commission to 
be composed of seven prominent educators actually en- 
gaged in school work in the State, to be known as the 
Sub-Commission for high school books or elementary 
school books, according as the books next to be adopted 
are for use in high schools or elementary schools, and 
hereafter designated in this Act as the Sub-Commission. 
The names of the persons composing any Sub -Commission 
are not to be made public until the Sub-Commission is 
called together at the Capitol to enter upon the discharge 
of its duties. The duties and term of service of each Sub- 
Commission shall terminate with the filing of its report. 

A new Sub-Commission shall be appointed for every 
eight-year adoption of either high school or of elemen- 
tary school text-books. The Governor is hereby author- 
ized to remove any member of a Sub-Commission for 
cause, or to fill, upon the nomination of the State Super- 
intendent of Public Instruction, any vacancy occurring 
thereon. 

Sec. 222. Oath of Sub-Commission. — Each member of ib., sec. 5. 
any Sub-Commission, before entering upon the discharge 
of the duties of the position, shall subscribe to an oath 
substantially as follows, and file the same with the Secre- 
tary of State : 

I certify, upon my sacred honor, that I am not now and 
never, prior to this appointment, have been an agent of, 
in the employment of, or interested in, any book concern, 
publishing house, or corporation making or proposing to 
make bids for the sale of school books. I promise and 
swear that I will act faithfully, honestly, and conscien- 
tiously in the discharge of the duties placed upon me as 
a member of said Sub -Commission, and will not, during 
my term of service, accept any emolument or promise of 
future reward of any kind from any publisher of school 
books, his agent, or any one interested in or intending to 
bias my judgment in any way in the selection of any 
school book to be adopted and used in the schools of the 
State. 

I further promise and swear that I will examine care- 
fully and faithfully all books submitted for adoption, and 
make true report thereon according to my honest judg- 
ment. So Help Me God. 



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lb.. Sec. 6. Sec. 223. Duties of the Sub-Commission. — It shall be 

the duty of the ' Sub-Commission, for the adoptiou of 
either high school or elementary school text-books, to 
convene in the State Capitol on the day fixed by the Book 
Commission, to organize by electing a Chairman and Sec- 
retary, and to adopt such rules and regulations for the 
prosecution of its work as it may deem necessary, sub- 
mitting the same to the Book Commission for its approval. 

The said regulations being approved, the Sub-Commis- 
sion shall receive from the Book Commission the speci- 
men copies of all books bid for adoption, and shall, in 
executive session from day to day until the work is com- 
pleted, examine faithfully and honestlj' all books sub- 
mitted, without interruption, suggestion, or interference 
by any one ; provided, that am- bidder or publisher may 
mail, at the request of the Sub-Commission, printed or 
written matter addressed to and for the use of the entire 
Sub-Commission. The Sub-Commission shall consider and 
valuate all books bid for adoption, irrespective of the 
price of the book or books, the subject matter, paper, 
printing, binding, and the general mechanical execution, 
teachability, suitability, adaptability, and desirability for 
the purposes intended as a school text-book. 

After all books have been carefully examined, it shall 
be the further duty of said Sub-Commission to make and 
file with the Book Commission a type-written report, not 
later than January 1st of any year when a book adoption 
is to be made. Said report shall indicate the merits of 
a book or books by recording the first choice, second 
choice, and on down to the fifth choice of the Sub-Com- 
mission ; the rank of any book or series of books below 
the fifth choice may be omitted. Opposite each book or 
series of books down to its fifth choice, the Sub-Commis- 
sion shall record in its report a brief statement of the 
merits or demerits of any book or books, and also the 
names of the members voting for and against each book. 
The Sub-Commission is authorized to make in its report 
such suggestions or recommendations to the Book Com- 
mission as it shall deem proper and advisable ; it shall 
recommend basal readers and such supplementary read- 
ers as it may deem necessar}^ for adoption. 

The report of the Sub-Commission shall be kept secret 
and delivered sealed to the Secretarv of the Book Com- 



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mission, -which report shall not be opened until the Book 
Commission meets to open and consider bids or proposals 
of publishers and to make adoption of books. The duties, 
term of service, and per diem of every Sub-Commission 
shall terminate with the filing of its report with the Sec- 
retary of the Book Commission. 

Sec. 224. Duties of Book Commission. — The Book Com- ib,. see 7. 
mission, as soon as practicable after the report of the 
Sub-Commission is filed, shall open and consider the bids 
or proposals of publishers for furnishing books, and shall 
proceed to select and adopt, for a period of eight years, 
a uniform system or series of text-books for use either in 
the high schools or in the elementary schools, to be de- 
termined by the expiration of the contracts of the class 
of books next to expire. 

The said. Book Commission in adopting books shall give 
due consideration both to the prices bid for furnishing 
books and to the report and recommendations of the Sub- 
Commission, and shall, itself, consider the merits of the 
books to be adopted as to subject matter, printing, bind- 
ing, and the general mechanical execution, suitability, 
adaptability, and desirabilit}'- of the books offered for 
adoption ; and it shall adopt such books as will, in its 
own best judgment, meet the ends desired. 

When the Book Commission shall have finished with 
the report- of the Sub-Commission, said report shall be 
filed and preserved in the office of the State Superinten- 
dent of Public Instruction and shall be open at all times; 
for public inspection. 

Sec. 225. Dates for Completion of Adoptions and Be- '^^■' see. s. 
ginning" of Contracts. — In any year when books must be 
adopted, the adoptions shall be fully completed, that is, 
all books adopted, contracts with bidders executed, and 
bonds submitted and approved, on or before the 1st day 
of March, in order that contractors shall have ample 
time in which to supply books by July 1st, the beginning 
of the school year, which is also the date fixed for the 
beginning of all contracts .for furnishing books. 

Sec. 226. Duties of Attorney General in Relation to i''-' ^^c. 9. 
Contracts. — It shall be the duty of the Attorney General 
of the State, as soon as practicable after the Book Com- 
mission shall have made the adoption of books and all 



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bidders or publishers, having secured the adoption of any 
book or books, have been notified of the same by regis- 
tered letter, to prepare a contract, in accordance with the 
provisions of this Act, in triplicate, with ever^^ bidder or 
publisher awarded the adoption of any books ; said con- 
tracts shall be executed by the Governor and Secretary 
of State under the seal of the State ; one copy to be kept 
by the contractor, one copy to be filed in the office of the 
Secretary of State, one copy to be filed in the office of 
the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. And each 
contract prepared and executed shall provide that when 
any book or books covered by any such contract shall 
thereafter during the life of such contract be contracted 
for any other State of the United States at a lower con- 
tract retail price fixed by the publisher than is desig- 
nated in such contract for such book or books, the same 
contract retail price fixed by the publisher shall imme- 
diately become the price of such book or books in the 
State of Florida. 

It shall be the further duty of the Attorney General 
to prepare and have executed a bond by each contractor, 
conditioned for the faithful, honest, and exact perform- 
ance of each contract, in any guaranty company author- 
ized to do business in the State of Florida, in an amount 
not to exceed ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars, payable 
to the State of Florida; the amount of bond in each case 
to be fixed by the Book Commission. Provided, however, 
that said bond shall not be exhausted by a single recov- 
ery, but may be sued on from time to time until the full 
amount shall be recovered. 

lb.. Sec. 10. Sec. 227. Duties of State Treasurer Relating to Cash 
Deposits. — It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer, 
immediately after the Book Commission shall finish the 
adoptions, to return the cash deposit to bidders or pub- 
lishers not awarded the adoption of any book or books ; 
also to return the cash deposit of any successful bidder 
or publisher when the execution of a contract and the 
required bond is submitted and approved by the Attorney 
General. 

But should any bidder or publisher fail or refuse to 
enter into contract or to submit the required bond, within 
thirty days after notification of being awarded an adop- 
tion of any book or books, the cash deposit of such bidder 



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or publisher shall be deemed and declared forfeited to 
the State of Florida and placed by the State Treasurer to 
the credit of the State School Fund. 

Sec. 228. Secretary of State to Preserve Specimen ib., sec. ii. 
Books. — It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State 
to carefully preserve in his office the specimen or sample 
copies of all books which have been adopted and made 
the basis of any contract, together with the original bid 
or proposal, that the books furnished under anj^ contract 
may be seen to be equal in all respects to the standard of 
quality and excellence of the sample copies furnished with 
the bid. The specimen copies submitted by any bidder 
failing to receive adoption shall be subject to the order 
of the bidder or publisher submitting them. 

Sec. 229. Duties of Contractors Relating- to Prices. — n,., see. 12. 
It shall be the duty and be required of all contractors to 
plainly print, stamp, or paste a printed slip on the back 
or the inside cover of each book furnished under their 
contracts, both the contract retail price and the exchange 
price at which books are to be furnished. Provided, that 
the commission shall stipulate in any contract for the 
supplying of any book or books, as herein provided, that 
the contractor, or contractors, shall take up school books 
in use at time for making anj^ contract, and receive same 
in exchange for new books, allowing a price for such old 
books not less than fifty per cent, of the contract price of 
the new books. 



Sec. 230. The State Not Liable.— It shall always be a 
part of the terms and conditions of every contract made 
in pursuance of this Act, that the State of Florida shall 
not be liable to any contractor in any manner or any sum 
whatever, but all contractors shall receive their pay or 
compensation solely and exclusively from the sale of 
books as provided in this Act. 

The Book Commission shall always reserve to itself the 
right to reject any and all bids, or proposals, if it shall 
be of the opinion that any or all bids, for any reason, 
should be rejected, and said Book Commission shall be 
authorized to re-advertise for sealed bids or proposals 
under the same terms and conditions as before, and pro- 
ceed in all respects as it did in the first instance, and as 
required bj^ the terms and provisions of this Act ; Pro- 

6— S. Laws 



lb.. Sec. 13. 



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vicled, that in all cases, bids or proposals shall be aeeoni- 
panied with a cash deposit of from $500 to $2,500, as the 
Book Commission may direct. 

lb.. Sec. 14. Sec. 231. Governor to Make Proclamation. — It shall be 
the duty of the Governor, as soon as the Book Commission 
shall have adopted books and completed all contracts and 
approved bonds for the faithful performance of contracts 
for the furnishing or supplying of books for use in the 
public schools of the State, either high schools or elemen- 
tary schools, to issue his proclamation announcing such 
fact to the people of the State, and direct the use of the 
books adopted. 

lb. Sec. 15. Sec. 232. Contractors to Maintain a Book Depository 
and Agencies. — Each contractor, or the several contract- 
ors combined, shall establish and maintain a book depos- 
itory at some convenient point in the State of Florida 
designated by the Book Commission, selected with special 
reference to transportation facilities and freight rates ; 
and the said contractors shall maintain one or more 
agencies in each county of the State for convenient and 
speedy distribution of books. Persons living in a county 
where no agency has been established, or no arrange- 
ments made for the distribution of books, may order the 
book or books from the contractor publishing the same, 
and if the retail contract price of the book or books 
accompanies the order, it shall be the duty of the con- 
tractor or contractors to deliver, without delay, any book 
or books so ordered, to the person ordering, to his post- 
office address, postage or express charges prepaid. 

lb., Sec. 16. Sec. 233. Book Commission to Secure Performance of 
Contracts. — The Book Commission may, from time to time 
make any necessary regulations, not contrary to the pro- 
visions of this Act, to secure the prompt and faithful per- 
formance of all contracts, and it is expressly provided, 
that should any contractor fail or refuse to furnish books 
as provided in this Act, or otherwise break his contract, 
the Book Commission may sue on the bond hereinbefore 
required, in the name of the State of Florida, in the courts 
of the State of Florida having jurisdiction, and recover 
damages on the bond given bj^ the contractor for failure 
to furnish books ; the sum recovered to mure to the State 
School Fund. 



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Sec. 234. State Superintendent to Issue Circular of ib., see n. 
Information. — ^The State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction, as soon as practicable after the adoption of 
either high school or elementary school text-books under 
this Act, and contracts for furnishing the same have been 
executed, shall issue a circular letter to the educators of 
the State, containing such information as he may deem 
necessary. 

Sec. 235. Adopted Books Must Be Used.— The books ib.. see. is. 
adopted as a uniform system of text-books for use in the 
high schools and in the elementary schools shall be intro- 
duced and used as text-books, exclusive of all others, in 
all public free schools of the State ; Provided, that pre- 
scribed and adopted supplementary text-books may be 
used after the basal book of the same grade has been com- 
pleted. Provided, further, that basal and supplementary 
readers, with the consent of the County Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, may be used alternately, equal time 
being given to each. 

Any teacher wilfully refusing to use any book adopted 
by the Book Commission, or permitting to be used in his 
or her school any text-book not adopted and prescribed 
by the Book Commission, it is hereby made the duty of 
the County Board of Public Instruction to discharge such 
teacher from service, and of the County Superintendent 
of Public Instruction to revoke the certificate of any such 
teacher, or to report the case to the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction. 

Sec. 236. Overcharg-e for Books a Misdemeanor. — Any ib., see. i9. 
dealer in school books, his clerk, or the manager of any 
agency or depository selling any school book adopted for 
use in the Public Schools of this State at a greater price 
than the contract retail price, shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a 
fine of Fifty ($50) Dollars. 

Sec. 237. Pay of Sub-Commission ; Appropriation for. — 

Each member of the Sub-Commission shall be paid Five 
($5.00) Dollars for each day's actual service, not exceed- 
ing twenty days, and shall be paid, in addition thereto, 
actual traveling expenses for one trip to and from Talla- 
hassee, and a per diem allowance of not more than Three 
($3.00) Dollars for board and lodging; and there is here- 



Ib., See. 20. 



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by appropriated the sum of Two Thousand ($2,000.00) 
Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from 
any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated, for the payment of the Sub-Commission and the 
incidental expenses of the Book Commission in the execu- 
tion of this Act. 

Each member of the Sub-Commission shall submit to 
the Book Commission a certified statement of his or her 
expenses, which shall be paid by the Comptroller upon 
the approval of the Book Commission, upon certificate by 
its Secretary. 

lb.. Sec. 21. Sec. 238. Bidders to Register All Agents. — Any bidder 
or publisher submitting school books to the Book Com- 
mission; for adoption shall register in the office of the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction the names and 
home addresses of all agents, or employees of any kind 
whatever, authorized to represent said bidder or pub- 
lisher in any book adoption in the State of Florida, and 
this registered list shall be open for inspection by the 
public. 

11... soc. 22. Sec. 239. Existing Text-Book Laws Repealed. — Sec- 
tions 668 to 686, both inclusive, of the Kevised General 
Statutes of Florida, relating to a uniform series of text- 
books, and all other laws and parts of laws in confiict 
with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. 

ch. 6163, Sec. 240. (687) School Boards Required to Furnish 

Acts 1911. Free Books to Children of Parents Unable to Purchase.— 

Sec. 1. 

That the respective school boards of the respective coun- 
ties of this State be, and they are herebj' required to fur- 
nish free of cost to any child not over fifteen years of 
age, whose father or mother or either of them is on the 
roll of the countj' poor, and any child who is an orphan 
under the age of fifteen years, and who is without the 
necessary means to procure the same, or who has no 
brother or other near relative who has the necessary 
means, or to any child, not over said age, whose parents 
are poor, and indigent or afflicted, and are financially 
unable to procure the same for such child, all the school 
text-books necessary' for the use of the child, upon requi- 
sition made therefor by the teacher of such child, accom- 
panied by the affidavit of not less than two reputable 
citizens, taxpayers of the county, certifying to such finan- 



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cial condition of such child or its parents, and upon the 
recommendation of the county superintendent of public 
instruction : Provided, That when the child in whose be- 
half the application is made, resides or has its home in a 
special tax district, the financial circumstances shall be 
certified to by not less than two of the trustees of such 
district, and the cost of the books furnished such child 
shall be charged against and paid for out of the funds to 
the credit of such district. 

Sec. 241. (5756) Penalty for School Officers Dealing ch. 3456, 
in Text-Books. — No superintendent or school board of any ^^*® ^'^^^- 
county, or any person officially' connected with the gov- 
ernment or direction of the public schools, or teacher 
thereof, shall receive any private fee, gratuitj^, donation 
or compensation, in any manner whatsoever, for promot- 
ing the sale or the exchange of any school book, map or 
chart in any public school, or be an agent for the sale or 
the publisher of any school text-book, or be directly or 
indirectly pecuniarily interested in the introduction of 
any such text-book, and any such agency or interest shall 
disqualify any person so acting or interested from hold- 
ing any school office whatsoever, and the party so offend- 
ing shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or 
imprisoned not more than thirty days. 



CHAPTER V. 

COUNTY DEPOSITORIES. 

Sec. 242. (1558) County Treasurer Abolished. — That ^.^^ qq^o,- 
from and after the first Monda}^ in January, A. D. 1917, Acts i9i"5, 
office of county treasurer shall be and the same is hereby 
abolished. 

Sec. 243. (1559) Banks To Be County Depositories. — ib., see 2. 
Any bank, National or State, authorized to do business in 
this State, that will pay two per cent, per annum on daih' 
balances of county funds, and four per cent per annum 
on balances of county funds deposited for a period of 
three months or longer, and give, at his own expense, a 
surety bond issued by some surety company authorized 
to do business in this State, or make satisfactory deposit 
to the credit of the county sufficient Federal, State, 



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county or municipal bonds for the protection of said de- 
posits, is hereby created a county depository and author- 
ized and entitled to receive public funds in the manner 
and method as hereinafter provided in this Chapter. 

lb.. See. 3. Sec. 244. (1560) How Banks May Qualify as Depos- 

itories; Deposits To Be Divided Equitably. — Any bank, as 
described above, desiring to become a county depository 
as herein provided, shall file with the board of county 
commissioners or board of public instruction, or both 
boards, a written offer and guarantee to pay said board 
or boards two per cent per annum on all daily balances 
when such funds exceed two thousand dollars, and four 
per cent per annum on time deposits, and shall execute 
and deliver to said board or boards a surety bond issued 
hy some company duly authorized to do business in this 
State, or make satisfactory deposit to the credit of the 
county, Federal, State, county or municipal bonds, in an 
amount to be determined by each of the said boards, re- 
spectively, and be approved both as to amount and to 
validity by the Comptroller of the State, and conditioned 
that said bank insure the safekeeping, accounting for and 
paying over upon demand by proper authority all money 
that may come into its hands by virtue of its acting as 
said depositorj^, and will in all respects duly and faith- 
fully perform the duty imposed upon it, is entitled and 
authorized to receive an equitable share of the public 
money of the county in which it is located ; provided the 
county commissioners and board of public instruction 
shall divide the deposits of their county equitably among 
the banks of the county that have qualified as provided 
in this Act, and in case no bank in the county should 
qualify, then the said boards are authorized and com- 
manded to divide the deposits among the banks in some 
other county meeting the conditions as provided in this 
Chapter. 

Sec. 245. (1561) County Funds To Be Paid Into De- 
positories ; Triplicate Receipts To Be Issued. — The county 
treasurers of this State shall, on or before the first Mon- 
day in January, A. D. 1917, pay over to the bank or banks 
qualified on or before that time to act as depository of 
money that may be in the hands of the county treasurer 
at that time, and after said time tax collectors and all 
other persons having or receiving or collecting any money 



lb.. Sec. 4. 



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payable to the county funds not otherwise provided for, 
shall pay the same to the bank or banks qualified to re- 
ceive the same. Each bank receiving any money, as pro- 
vided in this Chapter, shall make receipt for same in 
triplicate ; one copy of vs^hich the said banks will carefully 
preserve and keep ; one copy to be given to the person 
from whom money was received and one copy to be given 
to the board for whom said money was received. 

Sec. 246. (1562) Depositories to Keep Two Accounts for ib., see. 5. 
Each Board; How Interest on Deposits Credited. — Each 
bank acting as depository shall keep two separate ac- 
counts for each board for which it is a depository; one 
account shall contain the daily balance account, subject 
to immediate checking, the other account shall be the 
savings account or time deposit account, and shall not 
be subjected to check without being transferred to the 
checking account :^ Provided, That each board shall have 
full authority at all times to transfer money from one of 
two accounts to the other. All interest earned on the 
daily balances shall be credited by the board of county 
commissioners or the board of public instruction to the 
general fund of the county or the general school fund of 
the county, and all interest earned on time deposits shall 
be credited by the board of county commissioners or 
board of public instruction to the account on which it 
was so earned, and all interest shall be computed and 
credited quarterly. 

Sec. 247. (1563) County Boards to Keep Set of Books; ib., see e. 
Overdrawing Prohibited. — The board of county commis- 
sioners or board of public instruction shall keep an accu- 
rate and complete set of books showing the amount on 
hand, amount received, amount expended and the bal- 
ances thereof at the end of each month for each and every 
fund carried by said boards, and no check or warrant or 
warrants shall ever be draAvn in excess of the known 
balances to the credit of that fund as kept by the said 
board : Provided, however. That nothing in this Act shall 
be construed as prohibiting the board of public instruc- 
tion from borrowing money, as now or as may hereafter 
be provided by law. 

Sec. 248. (1564) How Funds Drawn Prom Depositories. ^'' • see. 7. 
— And all money drawn from any depository holding 
same under this Chapter shall be upon a check or war- 



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rant or warrants issued by the board drawing the same, 
said check, or warrant or warrants, both as to number 
and amount and person to whom drawn and purpose for 
which drawn shall be recorded in the minutes of the 
board having ordered the same drawn, and each check, 
or warrant or warrants, so drawn shall be signed by the 
chairman of said board, attested by clerk or secretary of 
said board with the corporate seal thereof affixed, and 
the bank upon which each check or warrant or warrants 
is drawn shall not pay same until it shall receive a cer- 
tified list from secretary or clerk of board issuing check, 
or warrant or warrants giving date and number and 
amount of each check or warrant or warrants and person 
to whom issued. 

lb.. Sec. 8. Sec. 249. (1565) Depositories to Make Reports ; Boards 
to Publish Monthly Statements; Comptroller Authorized 
to Require Additional Security. — Any bank acting as de- 
pository shall at the end of each and every month file 
with the board for which it is a depository a report, 
showing the balances on hand at the beginning of the 
month, on the sums received and paid out during the 
month, balances on hand at the end of the month and 
return with said report all checks or warrant or warrants 
properly cancelled which the said bank has paid during 
the month ; each board shall make and publish a monthly 
statement and at such other time as now. required, or at 
such other times as may be required by the Comptroller, 
the board of county commissioners or the county board of 
public instruction, and other such reports and statements 
regarding the conditions of each and every fund, as now 
or as may be hereafter required by law. If at any time 
the security furnished by any county depository becomes 
insufficient or inadequate, the Comptroller shall have au- 
thority on such terms, conditions and penalties as he may 
prescribe to require such other or additional security to 
be provided. 

lb., Sec. 9. Sec. 250. (1566) Accounts Subject to Examination by 

Authorized Persons. — The accounts of each and every 
board and the county accounts of each and every bank 
acting as depository, mentioned or provided for in this 
Chapter, shall at all times be subjected to the inspection 
and examination of county auditor, the State Auditor and 
the State Comptroller, or persons designated by him. 



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Sec. 251. (1567) Designation of Depositories; When ib. see. ii. 
Made. — That the designation of depositories under the 
provisions of this Chapter shall be made between the first 
and fifteenth day of December, 1916, and during the same 
time annually thereafter. 



CHAPTER III. 

COUNTY FINANCES. 

ARTICLE I. 

REGULATIONS CONCERNING COUNTY FINANCES. 



Sec. 252. (1517) Comptroller to Furnish Forms for 
Financial Statements. — That the Comptroller of the State 
of Florida is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe 
a form or forms of financial statements or reports to be 
made by the county commissioners and clerk of the cir- 
cuit court, and the county board of public instruction 
and the county superintendent of public instruction of 
each of the counties of the State of Florida, which shall 
provide for and require an accurate report of all the re- 
ceipts, disbursements, unpaid warrants and assets and 
liabilities of such counties, in such form and manner as 
to set forth a comprehensive and complete statement and 
report of the administration, conduct and condition of 
the financial affairs of each such county, and all separate 
funds thereof. Such forms may be altered from time to 
time by said comptroller, and he shall have the poAver to 
prescribe and promulgate rules for the effectual adminis- 
tration and enforcement of the provisions of this article, 
and to prescribe and alter, from time to time, such other 
forms and books as may be necessar}" in connection with 
and conforming to the provisions of this article. 

Sec. 253. (1518) Duty of County Officers to Make 
Sworn Statements of County Finance. — That it shall l)e 
the duty of the county commissiojiers and clerks of the 
circuit court and the county boards of public instruction 
and the county superintendents of public instruction to 
make out, fill in and subscribe such reports or statements 
of county finances, upon the form or forms prescribed by 



Ch. 6428, 
Acts 1913, 
Sec. 1, as 
amended by 
Ch. 6813, 
Acts 191.5, 
Sec. 1. 



Ch. 6428. 
Acts 1913, 
Sec. 2, as 
iimended by 
Ch. 6813. 
Acts 191.3, 
Sec. 2. 



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Ch. 6428, 
Acts 1913, 
Sec. 3, as 
amended by 
Ch. 6813, 
Acts 1915, 
Sec. 3. 



Ch. 6428. 
Acts 1913, 
Sec. 4, as 
amended by 
Ch. 6813, 
Acts 1915, 
Sec. 4. 



Ch. 6428 
Acts 1913, 
Sec. 5, as 
amended by 
Ch. 6813, 
Acts 1915, 
Sec. 5. 



said Comptroller, from time to time, and to swear to the 
accuracy and completeness of the same to the best of their 
knowledge, information and belief ,and file the same with 
the Comptroller of the State of Florida at such times as 
the same may be called for and required by said Comp- 
troller. 

Sec. 254. (1519) Copies of Financial Statements To Be 
Preserved. — That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the 
circuit court and the county superintendent of public in- 
struction of each such county to preserve in their respec- 
tive offices in a substantial book provided for that pur- 
p®se complete and accurate copies of every such financial 
report or statement, with the signatures and affidavits 
thereon, which said reports and records shall be a part 
of the public records of said boards of county commis- 
sioners and county boards of public instruction, and open 
at all times to the use and inspection of the public. 

Sec. 255. (1520) Public Inspection of Reports; Publi- 
cation; Expense. — That all of said reports made as afore- 
said to the Comptroller shall likevrise be kept by him for 
permanent reference, and be subject to the inspection of 
the public at any time. Said Comptroller shall cause each 
of said reports ,in condensed form, to be published in at 
least one newspaper published in the county from which 
said reports shall be received, and cause a copy of such 
publication to be transmitted to the Governor for his in- 
formation ; the expense of which publication shall be paid 
from the general fund of the county and the county school 
fund respectively. 

Sec. 256. (1521) Examination of Reports; Comptroller 
May Employ Examiner. — That the Comptroller shall have 
the power and it shall be his duty to cause every such 
financial report or statement to be examined and verified 
by a person employed for that purpose by the Comp- 
troller, whenever in the judgment of the Comptroller the 
same may be requisite or necessary, and for that purpose 
all of the books of account of the County Treasurer, clerk 
of the circuit court, county commissioners, county board 
of public instruction and county superintendent of public 
instruction and other county officers shall be open to the 
inspection of the Comptroller or his representative. 



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Sec. 257. (1522) Removal of Officers for Failure to 
Make Reports. — That if any county commissioner or clerk 
or any member of the county board of public instruction, 
or any county superintendent of public instruction, shall 
fail, decline or refuse to make, subscribe or swear to, file 
or return any of said financial statements or reports, or 
shall knowingly make, consent, subscribe or ^wear to any 
financial statement or report which shall be false or un- 
true in any particular, or shall otherwise violate any of 
the provisions of this article, or to fail to keep or perform 
or shall violate any rule or regulation adopted under the 
provisions of this article, it shall be the duty of the Comp- 
troller to certify said fact to the Governor of the State of 
Florida, and to the State's Attorney and county solicitor 
of the proper county. The failure or refusal of any 
countj^ commissioner, clerk of the circuit court, member 
of the county board of public instruction or any county 
superintendent of public instruction to conform or comply 
with any of the provisions of this article, or to such rules 
and regulations as shall be prescribed under the provi- 
sions of this article, shall be cause for removal by the 
Governor. 

Sec. 258. (5324) Failure of County Officers to Swear 
to or File Financial Statements. — ^That if any county com- 
missioner or clerk of the circuit court or any member of 
the county board of public instruction or county superin- 
tendent of public instruction shall decline, refuse or fail 
to make, subscribe or swear to or file with said Comptrol- 
ler any of the financial statements or returns required by 
law, at the time required by the Comptroller under the 
provisions of law, or if any such county commissioner or 
clerk or any member of the county board of public in- 
struction or county superintendent of public instruction 
shall knowingly or wilfully make, consent, subscribe, 
swear to or file any such financial report or statement 
which shall be false, incomplete or untrue in any respect, 
or otherwise in any respect violate any of the provisions 
of Article 1, Chapter 3, Title 9, First Division of these 
Revised General Statutes, or any of the rules and regu- 
lations therein provided for, he shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and, upon conviction, he shall be punished by 
imprisonment for not more than one year in the county 
jail ,or by a fine not exceeding five thousand ($5,000.00) 
dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court. 



Cl2. 6428, 
Acts 1913, 
Sec. 7, as 
amended by 
Ch. 6813, 
Acts 1915, 
Sec. 7. 



Oh. 6428, 
Acts 1913, 
Sec. 6, amend- 
ed by Ch. 
6813. May 
:9, 1915, 
Sec. 6. 



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ch. G8i3^ Sec. 259. (1523) Annual Appropriation. — For the pur- 

Sec.^s.' ""' pose of carrying- out the provisions of this article, the 

sum of $12,500.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, 

is hereby annually appropriated out of any funds in the 

treasury- not otherwise appropriated. 



INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER INSTITU- 
TIONS. 

CHAPTER IX. 

Ch. 7.^-8^ Sec. 260. (691) Commission Appointed by Governor. — 

hii<\i. '' That the Governor of this State, upon the recommenda- 
tion of the Board of County Commissioners, shall appoint 
a commission in each count}', to consist of six members, 
three of whom shall be women and three shall be men, to 
inspect all public and private charitable institutions with- 
in the county, including hospitals, sanatoriums, public 
and private schools, high schools and colleges, alms 
houses, houses of the Good Shepherd, detention and re- 
formatory institutions, nunneries, convents, asylums, 
seminaries and any other institutions maintained by re- 
ligious or educational institutions. 

lb., Sec, 2. Sec. 261. (692) Duty of Commission.— It shall be the 

duty of the commission to visit each institution mentioned 
in the foregoing section situated within the county, once 
each year, or oftener, if the commission deem it necessary 
for the purpose of ascertaining the treatment of the in- 
mates of said institutions and the general conditions of 
said institutions, and report their findings to the Governor 
and the county commissioners of the county : Provided, 
The visits of the said commission shall not be made known 
or announced beforehand. 

lb., Sec. 3. Sec. 262. (693) Commission to Serve Without Pay. — 

The members of said commission shall serve Avithout com- 
pensation, but shall be allowed their actual traveling ex- 
penses, to be paid by the comity. 

Ch. 7378^ Sec. 263. (5377) Interfering- with Commission to In- 

tec.^4!^"^' spect Charitable Institutions. — That any officer, agent or 

employee or other person who shall refuse to permit or 

interfere in any way with the visits or investigations pro- 



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vided for by Section 692, or in any manner hinder or 
delaj' the commission or any member thereof in the dis- 
charge of their duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
and be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by 
imprisonment not more than one year, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment. 



CHAPTER II. 

MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. 

Sec. 264. (2020) Medical Inspection of School Children ch. 6829, 
Under Supervision State Board of Health.— The State gee' i^.®^'^' 
Board of Health shall have supervision over all matters 
pertaining to the medical inspection of school children in 
Florida, with such duties and powers as are prescribed by 
law pertaining to public health, and all school children 
shall be examined as to their physical condition at least 
once during each school year. 

Sec. 265. (2021) Rules for Medical Inspection To Be ib.. see. 2. 
Formulated by State Board of Health. — It shall be the 
duty of the State Board of Health to formulate and adopt 
such rules and regulations as will be necessary to provide 
for thorough and uniform medical inspection of school 
children in Florida, as provided in Section 2020. 

Sec. 266. (2022) County Medical Inspectors; Payment ib.. scc. 3. 
for Services Out of State Board of Health Fund. — The 

county phj'sicians of each count}' in the State of Florida 
shall act as county medical inspectors of school children 
in their respective counties, providing that in such coun- 
ties where there are no regular appointed county physi- 
cians, it shall be the duty of the board of county commis- 
sioners to appoint a physician as county medical inspector 
of school children : Provided further. That the county 
phj^sician or county medical inspector of school children 
be paid for their services out of the State Board of Health 
funds : Provided further, That no one physician shall 
have more than twenty-five hundred school children un- 
der his charge, and in counties having more than twenty- 
five hundred school children, there shall be two medical 
inspectors of school children appointed, as aforesaid. 



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lb., Sec. 4. Sec. 267. (2023) Oities Already Having Medical In- 

spection Not Affected. — The provisions of this chapter 
shall not affect cities of over five thousand inhabitants, 
where medical inspection of school children has already 
been established under the jurisdiction of the city board 
of health, provided that the city board of health adopt 
the forms prescribed by the State Board of Health, and 
make full report to the State Board of Health. 

lb.. Sec. 5. Sec. 268. (2024) Expenditures To Be Certified by Pres- 

ident State Board of Health ; Annual report to Governor. 

— The expenditures of the State Board of Health for the 
purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter 
shall be certified by the president of the State Board of 
Health, and he shall make an annual report to the Gov- 
ernor of all such expenditures, together with any special 
observations, recommendations or facts that he may pre- 
sent, showing the value of medical school inspection from 
a public health standpoint, or from a standpoiut of educa- 
tional efficiency, or otherwise, and such annual statements 
shall finally be submitted by the Governor to the State 
Legislature, when in regular session convened, and shall 
be published like other reports of State officers. The 
accounts necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
chapter shall be approved, audited and paid in the same 
manner as is prescribed for the payment of other accounts 
of the State Board of Health, and out of the State Board 
of Health funds. 



MOTHERS' PENSIONS. 

ch. 7920. Sec. 269. General Duties of Officers. — The County Com- 

|cts of i9i9, missioners of the several counties of the State of Florida 
are empowered and authorized to provide in the annual 
budget of the General Revenue Fund an appropriation 
sufficient to meet the purposes of this law for the support 
of women who have dependents upon them for food, rai- 
ment and education an orphan or orphans or half orphan 
children under sixteen years of age, including any woman 
whose husband is dead or an inmate of some State insti- 
tution, or whose husband has been prosecuted for deser- 
tion or non-support and has been adjudicated by the 
Court where prosecuted to be wholly unable to support 



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his wife and children; whose support and the support of 
the children depend wholly or partially upon her labor, 
shall be entitled to the assistance as provided for in this 
Act, for the support of herself and for her children. 

Sec. 270. Allowance Authorized.— The allowance for i^., sec 2. 
the aid of such women shall not exceed twenty-five dollars 
a month when she has but one child under sixteen years 
of age. If she has more than one child under the age of 
sixteen years it shall not exceed twenty-five dollars for 
the first child, and eight dollars a month for each of the 
other children. 



lb., Sec. 3. 



Sec. 271. Condition of Allowance.— That the County 
Commissioners of their respective counties shall levy a 
tax of not more than % of one mill on all taxable prop- 
erty of their respective counties for the purpose of sup- 
plying funds to carry this bill into effect, and provide 
means for the same, provided the condition of allowance 
of said allotment shall be made by the County Commis- 
sioners upon the recommendation of the School Board in 
the county in which such Mothers reside, and only upon 
the following conditions : 

First.— The child or children for whose benefit the 
allowance is made, must be living with the mother of 
such child or children. 

Second. — The Mother must in the judgment of the 
County Commissioners of such county, which body shall 
finally pass upon all applications for aid under this Act, 
be a proper person morally, physically and mentally for 
the bringing up of her children. 

Third.^Said allowance shall, in the judgment of the 
County Commissioners, be necessary to save the child or 
children from neglect. 

Fourth. — No person shall receive the benefit of this Act 
who shall not have been a resident of the State for at 
least four years and a resident of the county in which 
the allowance is given, for at least one year next before 
the making of the application for aid in such county. 

Sec. 272. When Allowances Shall Ce^se. — Whenever j,,^ gee. 4. 
any child shall reach the age of sixteen years, or the 
mother shall remarry the allowance to the mother or the 



I!).. Sec. G. 



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children shall cea-se : Provided, however, that if it is 
made to appear to the Board of Count}' Commissioners, 
after an investigation and recommendation by the County 
School Board, that there exists some special reason that 
it is for the besti interest of any child, as well as for 
society, to continue said allowance for a longer period of 
time such allowance may be continued for such time as 
the justice of the case maj' demand. In all cases, how- 
ever, when the mother remarries all allowances shall 
cease. 

Sec. 5. Sec. 273. Female Relative. — The provisions of this Act 

shall also be extended for the benefit of orphan children 
who are dependent on some female relative unable to sup- 
port them, or to any such child or children under guar- 
dianship who are dependents or paupers and have no 
means of support. 

Sec. 274. How Carried Into Effect. — In order to carry 
the provisions of this Act into effect, it shall be the duty 
of the County School Attendance Officer, or like officer 
by whatever name called, to have direct supervision of 
the investigation of all cases, and he shall have the as- 
sistance of the Bureau of Education and Child Welfare 
of the State Board of Health to cooperate with the Board 
of Public Instruction or social workers of each county in 
the State in investigating all persons entitled to the pro- 
visions of this Act in the gathering of data and the his- 
tory, and making a report on each case, and to this end 
the necessary blanks will be provided, and it shall be the 
duty of the Board of Child Welfare and Education of the 
State Board of Health to provide uniform blanks to be 
printed and paid for by the counties to be used in gather- 
ing and recording the history of each case. 

lb., Sec. 7. Sec. 275. History of Each Ca^e. — The history of each 

case when investigated by the Board of Public Instruc- 
tion, School Attendance Officer, or the nurse or social 
worker of the county, or a committee hereinafter pro- 
vided to be appointed, shall be made up in triplicate, the 
original to be filed with the Board of County Commis- 
sioners of the county, which shall include the recommen- 
dation of the Board of Public Instruction of the county, 
and one copy shall be retained by the Board of Public 
Instruction, and one copy forwarded to and filed with 



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tlie Bureau of Child Welfare and Educatiou of the State 
Board of Health. 

Sec. 276. How Families Are To Be Investigated. — It ib., see. s. 
shall be the duty of the Board of Public lustructiou of 
each county to require each nurse or social worker em- 
ployed by said County Board of Public Instruction or 
School Attendance Officer to carefully and speedily in- 
vestigate the condition of any and all poor mothers' chil- 
dren, orphan and half orphan children, whose needs may 
be brought to their attention, and after having gathered 
the history of each case and recorded such history upon 
the blanks as hereinbefore required to be provided, to 
immediately place such report of such case before the 
Board of Public Instruction of such county for its imme- 
diate action, and said Board of Public Instruction shall * 
examine such report and immediately transmit such ap- 
plication together with its recommendations to the Board 
of County Commissioners of the county for final action. 
The Board of County Commissioners shall immediately 
take up such application and grant or reject such appli- 
cation as that Board in its judgment shall find the appli- 
cant entitled in this Act. 

Sec. 277. Other Persons May Be Appointed to Carry ib., see. 9. 
Law Into Effect. — In absence of a social worker or nurse, 
as provided for in Section 8, in any county of the State, 
it shall become the duty of the Board of Public Instruc- 
tion, upon this Act becoming a law, to immediately recom- 
mend for appointment three capable women, residents of 
such county, who will be willing to accept such appoint- 
ment and serve without compensation, to investigate and 
report the cases of poor mothers, orphans and half orphan 
children entitled to the provisions of this Act, and who 
shall serve until a nurse or social worker or School At- . 
tendance Officer is employed, and such persons so ap- 
X^ointed shall individually or collectively make their 
investigation of poor mothers, orphans and half orphans 
in the same manner as nurses and social workers as is 
provided for in Section 8 of this Act. 

Sec. 278. Where Child May Reside.— The child or chil- ib., see. lo. 
dren to whom the allowance is made under this Act must 
be living with the mother, or other female guardian of 
such child or children unless special privilege of separa- 
tion is authorized by the Board of County Commissioners, 

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upon the recommendation of the Board of Public Instruc- 
tion for the sake of the child's education. 

lb., Sec. 11. Sec. 279. — Construed Liberally. — The provisions of this 
Act shall be construed liberally to the ends that the best 
interest of all dependent children shall be conserved. 

lb., Sec. 12. Sec, 280. Require Attendance at School. — All children 
receiving aid under the provisions of this Act shall be 
required to attend the schools of the county during the 
whole term or terms of such schools, and upon failure of 
such children to attend schools for the whole term or 
terms thereof, the aid herein provided for such mothers 
and child or children shall cease without notice. 

lb., Sec. 13. Sec. 281. Penalty for Fraud. — Any person procuring 
an allowance under the provisions of this Act for a person 
or persons not entitled thereto shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor and on conviction shall be punished by a fine 
of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or by 
imprisonment for a period of not more than six months 
or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion 
of the trial judge. 



MILITARY INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING IN HIGH 
SCHOOLS. 

ch. 7911 Sec. 282. Course of Military Instruction. — That the 

Sec." 1.^ ^^^^' State Board of Education of the State of Florida be and 
is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe a course 
in military instruction and training to be used in high 
schools of the State of Florida having an enrollment of 
twenty-five or more male pupils in and above the ninth 
grade ; and to prescribe the kind and style of uniform and 
equipment to be used by pupils taking the said course in 
military instruction and training. 

lb.. Sec. 2. Sec. 283. County Boards May Designate Schools. — 

That the boards of public instruction in and for the sev- 
eral counties in which high schools are maintained shall 
be empowered to designate the high school or schools in 
which the said course in military instructon and training 
shall be used and maintained. 



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Sec. 284. Boards May Procure Equipment. — That the ib.. sec. 3. 
said boards of public instruction be and are hereby au- 
thorized to receive or procure rifles or other military 
equipment necessary for the said course in military in- 
struction and training and to give security therefor when 
leased or borrowed from the Federal Government. 

Sec. 285. Students to Furnish Own Uniform.— That the ib., sec. 4. 
pupil or pupils taking the said course in military instruc- 
tion and training shall be required to buy and furnish 
his or their own uniform or uniforms. 



COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. 

Sec. 286. Who Must Send Children to School.— That ch. tsos, 

from and after July 1, 1919, ever parent, guardian or sec^ i. 
other person having citizenship within the State of Flor- 
ida having the custodj^, control or charge of any child or 
children within the State of Florida between the ages of 
seven and sixteen years, both inclusive, shall cause said 
child or children to attend a public, or private school 
each year for a term or period of not less than substan- 
tially the number of days the public or private school 
which said child attends is held annually in the district 
in which the school is located or in which such chold or 
children may reside ; Provided, that any child may be 
taught by parent or guardian upon written authority 
from the County Superintendent of Public Instruction of 
the county in which they reside ; the County Superinten- 
dent of Public Instruction being hereby authorized to 
grant such permission only in cases of necessity, which 
permission shall not extend for a period of time beyond 
the end of the current school year, and in cases where 
such authority is granted the said child shall report to 
the County Superintendent of Public Instruction, or some 
person designated by him, for examination in the work 
covered, at least twice a year, and if the County Sviperin- 
tendent of Public Instruction shall determine, after such 
examination that any child has not been properly taught, 
he shall revoke the authority of the parent or guardian 
to teach such child, and shall require said parent or guar- 
dian having the custody, control or charge of said child 
to cause said child to attend a public or private school 



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for the remainder of the said school year; and if any 
parent, guardian or other person having the custody, con- 
trol or charge of any child shall fail to complj^ with the 
order of the County Superintendent of Public Instruction 
he shall be liable to the penalties hereinafter provided. 
Provided, that in. the following enumerated cases all chil- 
dren between the ages of seven and sixteen years, both 
inclusive, shall be exempt from the provisions of this Act : 

Exemptions : 

First. — Any child who is mentally or physically inca- 
pacitated to perform school duties ; satisfactory proof of 
such incapacity to be submitted to the Attendance Officer. 

Second. — Any child who has satisfactorily completed 
the eight grammar school grades, as prescribed by the 
State Course of Study of this State, or a course of study 
adopted by any county or private school or tutor, or the 
equivalent of such eight grades completed in another 
State, and holding a certificate of having completed such 
grades, signed by the principal of the school under whom 
completed and countersigned by the County Superinten- 
dent of Public Instruction of the county in which said 
grade was completed. 

Third. — Any child whose services are necessary for the 
support or assistance of a widowed mother or other per- 
son dependent upon said child for support ; said depen- 
dency to be proven by affidavit of the dependent person 
and at least two other affidavits as to such dependency 
by disinterested persons not related to said child or de- 
pendent, and such other proof as may be required by and 
is satisfactory to the Attendance Officer having authority 
to grant exemptions. 

Fourth. — Any child between the ages of seven and nine 
years, inclusive, who resides more than two miles from 
any school, and any child from ten to sixteen years of 
age who resides more than three miles from any school, 
unless free transportation is furnished. 

Fifth. — Any child whose parent, guardian or other per- 
son having the custody, control or charge of said child 
can make satisfactory proof that he or she is unable to 
provide the necessary books and clothing, unless said 
necessary books and clothing shall be furnished by some 
other means to said child. 



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Sixth. — Any unusual cause acceptable to the Attend- 
ance Officer for the district in which the school, public 
or private, which any child is required to attend is lo- 
cated; Provided that request for excuse, setting forth 
the cause, be made in writing by the parent, guardian 
or other person having the custody, control or charge of 
said child, such request to be filed within two days after 
the first day's absence. 

Sec. 287. When Private Instruction Acceptable ; Ver- ib., see 2. 
ify. — Whenever, under the provisions of this Act, any 
child shall receive instruction privately or in any private 
school, the private teacher, principal or teacher in charge 
of such private school shall keep a record of the attend- 
ance of such child or children and the County Superin- 
tendent in checking his lists of attendance may call on 
the private school principal to verify a child's attend- 
ance. 

Sec. 288. Four Days Absence Excusable. — Occasional ib., see. 3. 
non-attendance at public school by any child required to 
attend public school under the provisions of this Act, 
amounting to not more than four days unexcused absence 
in any school month, shall not render any parent, guar- 
dian or other person having the custody, control or 
charge of such child liable to any of the penalties pro- 
vided by this Act. 

Sec. 289. Accurate Record To Be Kept and Reported 
Weekly.— The principal or teacher in charge of any pub- 
lic school shall keep an accurate record of the attendance 
and non-attendance of all children enrolled in the school 
over which he or she is in charge, and shall make report 
of non-attendance of any child to the Attendance Officer 
on Friday of each week during the school term, together 
with the reason therefor, if known to said principal or 
teacher. The certificate of any teacher failing to ■ keep 
such record and make such report may be revoked by the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction upon satisfac- 
tory proof of such failure. 

Sec. 290. Attendance Officers, Compensation, Removal. 

— The County Board of Public Instruction in each county 
is hereby authorized and directed to appoint one or more 
Attendance Officers, as may be necessary for the faithful 
execution of the provisions of this Act, and to prescribe 



lb., Sec. 4. 



Ib., Sec. 5. 



102 

the district or territory to be nncler the supervision of 
said Attendance Officer or Officers, and to fix the com- 
pensation of said Attendance Officer or Officers for the 
time actnally employed in the performance of duties, said 
compensation to be paid from the County School Fund. 
And if deemed advisable by the County Board of Public 
Instruction, any Supervisor or Trustee of schools within 
the county may be appointed as Attendance Officer or 
Officers. The County Board of Public Instruction is 
hereby authorized to remove any Attendance Officer who 
fails to perform his duties as herein prescribed. 

lb., Sec. 6. Sec. 291. Duties of Attendance Officers.— Each At- 

tendance Officer is directed c^id authorized : 

First. — To Take Census and Report. — During the month 
of June in each and every year, it shall be the duty of 
every Attendance Officer appointed under the provisions 
of this Act to take an accurate census, in triplicate, of 
all children between the ages of seven and eighteen years 
in the territory or district in which he is acting ; the said 
census to show the name, sex, age and date of birth, and 
distance from the nearest school, of each child, the school 
grade completed, and the name of the parent, guardian 
or other person havuig the custody, control or charge of 
such children, Avith the postoffiee address thereof; and 
on or before the first day of July of each and every year, 
one copy thereof shall be filed with the County Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction, one copy with the State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction, and one copy shall 
be retained by the Attendance Officer, but no child over 
sixteen years of age is under compulsion to attend school. 

lb., Sec. 7. Second. — To Notify Violators of the Law; Penalties. — 

It shall be the duty of the Attendance Officer to serve a 
notice upon any parent, guardian or other person having 
the custody, control or charge of any child who has been 
absent from school in violation of the provisions of this 
Act, to cause said child to attend school as herein pro- 
vided ; and any parent, guardian or other person having 
the custody, control or charge of any child Avho, upon 
notice herein provided for being served on him or her, 
fails to comply Avith the provisions of this Act, shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and con- 
viction thereof by any Court of this State having juris- 
diction of misdemeanors, shall be fined not more than 



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Five Dollars for each offense, and upon failure or refusal 
to pay such fine, said parent, guardian or other person 
having the custody, control or charge of said child shall 
be imprisoned not exceeding five days for each offense; 
Provided, that upon conviction for any first offense sen- 
tence may, upon payment of costs, be suspended until the 
second conviction of the same person for a similar offense, 
and that each day a child remains away from school after 
service of notice by the Attendance Officer, as herein pro- 
vided, unless one of the grounds for excuse provided for 
by this Act exists, shall constitute a separate offense, and 
subject the offending person to penalties accordingly. 
All fines collected under the provisions of this Act shall 
be paid into the County School Fund of the county in 
which collected. 

Third. — To Furnish Teachers Names. — It shall be the ib., see. s. 
duty of each Attendance Officer appointed under the pro- 
visions of this Act to furnish the principal or teacher in 
charge of any school within the territory or district for 
which the Attendance Officer is appointed with a list of 
the names of all children in such district who should at- 
tend school. 

Fourth. — To Enter Places of Business. — Any Attend- ib., sec. 9. 
ance Officer appointed under the provisions of this Act 
is hereby authorized to enter, for the purpose of assisting 
in the proper enforcement of this Act, any office, factory 
or business house, of any nature whatsoever, for the pur- 
pose of ascertaining whether or not any child or children 
are enrolled or employed therein who should, under the 
provisions of this Act, be in attendance upon any school. 

Fifth. — To File Complaint in Court. — It is hereby made 
the duty of the Attendance Officer in the territory or dis- 
trict over which he has supervision, or for which he is 
appointed, to make and file in the proper court complaint 
in due form against any person or persons violating the 
provisions of this Act. 

Sixth. — To Keep Records.^Every Attendance Officer j^, gg^. n, 
appointed under the provisions of this Act shall keep a 
record of all attendance notices served, all cases prose- 
cuted, fines imposed and other services rendered, and 
shall make annual report of the same to the County 
Board of Public Instruction, on blanks to be furnished 



lb., Sec. 10. 



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him, and shall make reports more frequently if required 
by the County Board of Public Instruction, and shall 
perform such other duties as shall be required of him by 
the County Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

lb., Sec. 12. Sec. 292. When Patrons Exempt; Correctional Schools. 

— If any parent, guardian or other person having the 
custod.y, control or charge of any child within the eom- 
pulsorj^ school attendance ages as herein provided shall 
present to the County Board of Public Instruction, or to 
the court beford which a trial may be had in cases of 
prosecution under this Act, satisfactory proof that he or 
she is unable to compel said child to attend school, said 
person or persons shall be exempt from the penalties 
herein provided for the non-attendance of such child; 
and in all such cases said child shall, if a boy, be com- 
mitted by the said court to the Florida Industrial School 
for Boys, and if a girl, to the State Industrial School for 
Girls, or said boy or said girl may be committed to some 
other Correctional School for the remainder of the cur- 
rent school term. 

lb., Sec. 13. Sec. 293. Fine for County Superintendent. — Any 

County Superintendent of Public Instruction who fails 
to perform the duties required of him by this Act shall, 
upon conviction, be fined not exceeding Fifty ($50.00) 
Dollars for each offense. 

lb., Sec. 14. Sec. 294. state Superintendent to Prescribe Forms. — 

All notices, forms and blanks to be used in properly car- 
rying out the provisions of this Act shall be prescribed 
by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and 
furnished by the County Board of Public Instruction. 

lb., Sec. 15. Sec. 295. Publication of Act. — The Board of Public 

Instruction of each county in this State shall cause this 
Act to be published in full once a week for at least two 
weeks prior to the first day of July, 1910, in some news- 
paper in the county, and if there be no' newspaper pub- 
lished in the county, then to cause same to be published 
by posting copies thereof at the Court House of the 
county and at each public school in the county for at 
least two Aveeks prior to the opening day of each of said 
schools. 

lb. Sec. 16. Sec. 296. Period of Compulsory Attendance. — The pe- 
riod of compulsory attendance under this Act shall com- 



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mence with the beginnmg of the school term nearest the 
school term nearest the sixteenth birthday, except as is 
seventh birthday of the child and end at the close of the 
otherwise herein provided. 

Sec. 297. Whole Act Not Invalidated. — That if for any ib., see. ii 
reason any Section, Paragraph, Provision, Clause, or Part 
of this Act, shall be held unconstitutional or invalid, that 
fact shall not affect or destroy any other Section, Para- 
graph, Provision, Clause or Part of this Act, that is not 
in, and of itself invalid, but the remaining portion shall 
be in force without regard to that so invalidated. 



SUNDRY PROVISIONS AND PENALTIES. 
Sec. 298. (709) Tax Collector to Furnish List of Polls ch. 4666, 

Acts 1899 

to School Board. — It shall be the duty of the tax collector sec. i 
in each county to file, on or before the tenth day of every 
month with the county board of public instruction a cer- 
tified list of the names of all persons whose poll taxe§ 
were paid durmg the previous month, giving the year for 
which payments were made. 



Sec. 299. (1298) Fees of County Judge; License Money ch. 6969 

Acts 193" 
Sec. is. 



To Be Paid Into County School Fund ; Reports to County ^^^^ ^^^^' 



Board of Public Instruction. — County judges shall retain 
of the money received for licenses issued by them the 
sum of twenty-five cents for each resident county license, 
the sum of Mty cents for each non-resident county license, 
and the sum of one dollar for each non-resident hunter's 
license, which fees shall cover the fees for swearing the 
applicants to the affidavit herein provided for, when such 
affidavit is made before him, and all other services re- 
quired of them under this article, and shall pay the bal- 
ance, on the first day of each month, into the county 
treasury to the credit of the county school fund, and the 
said county judge shall report to the county board of 
public instruction, on the first day of each month, the 
number of licenses issued during the previous month, and 
the amount of money paid into the countj^ school fund 
under this article. 



100 



Ch. 1637, 
Acts 1868, 
Sub-Ch. 4, 
Sec. 62. 



Ch. 3872, 
Sec. 41, 
Acts 1S89. 



Ch. 3872, 
Sec. 42, 
Acts 1889. 



Ch. 


1637, 




Sub. 


-Ch. 8, 




Acts 


1868. 




Sees 


. 19, ; 


n. 


22 ; 
June 


Ch. 5; 

!3, 


il! 


1907 


, Sec. 


1. 


Ch. 


4192. 




Acts 


1893. 




Sec. 


21. 





Sec. 300. (5288) Injuring Dwelling- Houses, School 
Houses, Churches, Etc. — Whoever wantonly and mali- 
cionslv, or wantonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, 
mars or injures any dwelling house or any school house, 
church or other building erected or used for the purpose 
of education or religious instruction or for the general 
diffusion of knowledge, or any of the outbuildings, fences, 
walls, or appurtenances of such school house, church or 
other building, or any furniture, apparatus or other prop- 
erty belonging to or connected with such school house, 
church or other building, shall be punished by imprison- 
ment not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding 
five hundred dollars. 

Sec. 301. (5441) Obscenity on School Buildings, Etc. — 
Whoever wilfully cuts, paints, pastes or defaces, by writ- 
ing or in any other manner, any school building, furni- 
ture, apparatus, appliance, outbuilding, ground, fence, 
tree, post or other school propertj'- with obscene word, 
image or device shall be punished by imprisonment not 
exceeding fifteen days, or by fine not exceeding one hun- 
dred dollars. This section shall not apply to any pupil 
'in and subject to the discipline of the school. 

Sec. 302. (5443) Insulting Teachers in Pupils' Pres- 
ence. — AVhoever, within the school house or grounds, up- 
braids or insults any teacher in the presence of the pupils 
shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding fifteen 
days, or by fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars. This 
section shall not apply to any pupil in and subject to the 
discipline of the school. 

Sec. 303. (5448) Disturbing Schools and Religious and 
Other Assemblies. — Whoever v^dlfully interrupts or dis- 
turbs any school, or any assembly of people, met for the 
worship of God, or for any lawful purpose, shall be pun- 
ished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00), or im- 
prisonment in the county jail not exceeding sixty days. 

Sec. 304. (5867) For Violation of the Law to Secure 
Impartiality and Fairness in the Examination of Teach- 
ers. — ^Any superintendent, county or State, violating the 
provisions of law relating to the examination and certifi- 
cation of teachers, upon conviction shall be fined not less 
than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall 
be debarred from holding any school office in this State. 



107 



Sec. 305. (189) County Official May Be Suspended for ^i^-^siij^ 
Eefusal to Submit Books. — Any county official who shall see 2. 
refuse to submit his books of account, records, vouchers, 
papers, warrants and other property in his possession or 
control belonging to the State or county or kept by him 
for the use of the State or county to the State Auditor 
for inspection may be suspended from office by the Gov- 
ernor, I 



Ph. 5703 
Acts 1907, 
Sec. 1. 



lb. Sec 2, 



Sec. 306. (193) County Officers May Be Required to 
Make Reports to Auditor. — That Clerks of the Circuit 
Court, Clerks of Criminal Courts of Record, County 
Judges, Tax Collectors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, 
Boards of County Commissioners and Boards of Public 
Instruction of the several counties of this State, may be 
required by the State Auditor to make monthly reports 
to him of all matters touching the financial transactions 
of their respective offices, on such forms as he shall pre- 
scribe. 

Sec. 307. (194) Failure of County Officers to Make 
Reports. — That any county officer or board of county 
oft'icers who shall refuse to make reports when required 
to do so by the State Auditor in compliance with the pro- 
visions of Section 193, may be suspended from office by 
the Governor. 



Sec. 308. (1206) Flag of United States To Be Dis- on. 7.369, 
played. — The flag of the United States of America shall |g]^ J^^'^' 
be displaj'ed daily, when the weather j)ermits, from a ' ' ' 
staff upon the State capitol, county courthouse, upon one 
building of each State educational institution, and upon 
every county public school building, except when the in- 
stitution or school is closed for vacation. 



Sec. 309. (1207) Duty of Certain Officers to Provide 
Flag. — It shall be the duty of the officer or officers 
charged with the maintenance or upkeep of said build- 
ings to provide suitable flags and cause them to be dis- 
played, the expense to be borne out of the funds provided 
for the upkeep and maintenance of said buildings men- 
tioned in Section 1206. 



lb. Sec. 2. 



108 



TEACHERS' HEALTH CERTIFICATES. 

The following is prescribed by the State Board of 
Health by virtue of the duty and powers conferred and 
granted under Title XI, Chapted I of the Revised Gen- 
eral Statutes of Florida. This Board has authority to 
enforce its regulations. 

Rule No. 81. Who Forbidden to Teach.— ''A Rule for- 
bidding individuals to teach in the public schools of Flor- 
ida without having a health certificate from a reputable 
physician showing that they are not affected with or are 
carriers of communicable diseases. 

Section No. 1. All Teachers Must File Health Certifi- 
cates. — "All teachers or instructors in any public school 
operating in the State of Florida, or in any private school 
operating within the State of Florida, shall be required 
to file with the Board of Health of Florida annually be- 
fore the beginning of each school year a certificate ob- 
tained from a reputable physician, who is licensed to 
practice medicine in the State of Florida, certifying that 
said teacher or instructor has been duly and carefully 
examined and is free from communicable diseases and is 
believed to be a non-carrier thereof." 



STATE INSTITUTIONS. 

ARTICLE II. 

UNIVERSITY OF "FLORIDA AND STATE COLLEGE 
FOR WOMEN. 



Ch. 


5384, 


Acts 


1905 


Sec. 


12; 


Ch. 


5926, 


Acts 


; 1909, 


Spc 


1 : 


Ch. 


5924, 


Acts 


1909, 


Sec. 


1. 


Ch. 


5384, 


Acts 


; 1905, 


Sec. 


24. 



Sec. 310. (611) University and College for Women 
Created. — That there shall be established, and there is 
hereby created the following institutions of higher edu- 
cation in this State, to-wit: one university to be known 
as the University of Florida, and one female seminary to 
be known as the Florida State College for Women. 

Sec. 311. (612) Admission of Students From Other 
States ; Admission of Students From Florida. — In case of 
the admission of students to either the said university or 
college from other States, the same may be admitted by 



109 

and with the consent and upon the certificate of the Board 
of Control upon such terms as to tuition, board, etc., as 
the said board may from time to time establish. 

The several departments of the said college and of the 
said university shall be open to applicants for admission 
who are citizens of this State at the lowest rate and ex- 
pense consistent with the welfare and efficiency of the 
respective institutions, and as may be established from 
time to time by the said board. Each county shall have 
the right to send one student annually, or so often as 
vacancies may occur to each of the said institutions and 
normal department, such students to be selected by the 
boards of public instruction of the several counties pos- 
sessing the qualifications required for admission thereto, 
and such students so selected shall be received into said 
respective institutions and entitled to receive the benefits 
of a full course of instruction at either said college or 
university, or normal department, or other institution 
aforesaid, without any charge for instruction, but sub- 
ject to such rules and regulations as may be established 
by the said board for the governance and direction of 
the same, and the board may make such requisite as to 
previous instruction for entries into the normal depart- 
ments as it shall deem best. 

Sec. 312. (622) Departments of University.— The Uni- ch. 5384, 

versify of Florida shall have and contain the following |g*® .j^^^' 
departments and such other departments as may from I'evised.' 
time to time be determined upon and added at any joint 
meeting of the State Board of Education with the said 
State Board of Control, to-wit : 

A Department of Agriculture, Mechanical and Indus- 
trial Arts; 

A Scientific and Classical Department ; 

A Normal Department for the training and instruction 
of white teachers. It being intended that the design and 
scope of this institute shall be to teach such branches of 
learning as are related to agriculture and the mechauMal 
and industrial arts, scientific and classical studies and 
instruction in all the various higher branches of educa- 
tion ; the fundamental laws in what regards the rights 
and duties of citizens, and shall include military tactics 
if the said joint boards deem the same requisite and 
proper. 



110 

That all Summer Schools now or that may be hereafter 
provided for shall be taught, had and held m and at the 
University of Florida, and the Board of Control shall 
make such necessarj^ provisions therefor as shall be requi- 
site and necessary; provided, that whenever a normal de- 
partment shall be established at the Florida State College 
for AVomen, a branch of such summer school may be there 
located if deemed advisable, and the boards may establish 
summer schools for colored teachers at the Florida Agri- 
cultural and Mechanical College for Negroes whenever it 
shall deem the same necessary. 

lb. Sec. 23. Sec. 313. (623) Qualification of Students for Admis- 
sion; Board May Change Requirements. — No student shall 
be admitted to the University of Florida who has not 
passed a satisfactory examination at some high school 
and through the twelfth grade as now established, or 
some other institution of learning having an equivalent 
of instruction to the twelfth grade. The State Board of 
Control may change the grade at any time they may see 
fit as a prerequisite to such entrance. No person shall 
be admitted to said university except Avhite male students 
having the prerequisite qualifications to which the said 
Board of Control may add others in their judgment and 
discretion, except to the Normal Department thereof for 
the instruction and education of teachers ; when both male 
and female students maj' be admitted to that department. 

ch. 6i7o,_ Sec. 314. (624) Certain Books To Be Furnished by 

sec.^2''^; "^°' Clerk of Supreme Court. — The Clerk of the Supreme 
revised. Court of the State of Florida is hereby authorized and 

directed to furnish the Board of Control three bound 
copies of each volume of the Florida Supreme Court Re- 
ports as the same are issued and published, for the use 
of the School of Law of the University of Florida. The 
said Clerk of the Supreme Court is further authorized 
and directed to transmit to said School of Law any law 
books coming into his possession for the Supreme Court 
which are not necessary for said court. The clerk of said 
court is to furnish said Supreme Court Reports, and said 
law books, without cost to the Board of Control, or the 
said laAV school. 

Ch. 6432, Sec. 315. (625) Annual Appropriation. — That an an- 

^e'c^ i^'^^' nual appropriation of the sum of $2,716 is herebj^ made 

for the use of the University of Florida, it being entitled 



Ill 

to the benefits of the act of Congress approved July 2nd, 
1862, the said amount to be transferred to the agricul- 
tural college fund annually by the comptroller on the first 
day of July of each year. 

Sec. 316. (626) State Museum Established at Univer- ch. -ssk, 
sity of Florida. — There shall be established at the Uni- gg*^{®^^' 
versity of Florida at Gainesville, Florida, a department 
of said university to be known as the Florida State Mu- 
seum. 

Sec. 317. (627) Functions of Museum.— The functions ib, sec.2. 
of the Florida State Museum shall be to make scientific 
investigations towards the further development of the 
natural resources of the State and maintain a depository 
and exhibition of the collections acquired by the surveys 
provided for in this bill, and of collections and specimens 
otherwise coming into its possession, and of a library of 
publications pertaining to the work as herein provided. 
The collections and librarj^ of said museum shall be open 
free to the public, under suitable rules and regulations to 
be promulgated by the director of said museum, and ap- 
proved by the State Board of Control. 

Sec. 318. (628) State Museum Under Control of Direc- ib., sec 3. 
tor; Compensation. — The said museum shall be under the 
control of a director who shall be nominated by the presi- 
dent of the University of Florida and elected by the State 
Board of Control. He shall receive such compensation as 
may be fixed by the State Board of Control. 

Sec. 319. (629) Duty of Director; Collection of Speci- n,. sec 4 
mens and Data.— It shall be the duty of the director to 
conduct surveys of the State of Florida and collect speci- 
mens and data of a scientific and economic nature in the 
three kingdoms ; mineral, vegetable and animal, in such 
numbers and quantities as may be needful for the pur- 
pose of said museum. Said collections and acquisitions 
may be made at any season of the year and upon all prop- 
erties owned by the State of Florida, and no provision of 
any existing law shall be construed so as to prohibit the 
taking of necessary specimens for said museum. The per- 
mission of the owner or agent shall be first secured be- 
fore taking any specimens from the lands of any person 
or corporation. The director shall collect specimens and 
data of a civic nature pertaining to the early history of 



112 

the State, locate and chart historic sites, prehistoric 
earthworks, shell heaps, and collect specimens relative to 
the prehistoric and aboriginal tribes of the State as rep- 
resented in its mineral, vegetable and animal industries. 
He shall, as may be practicable, prepare such duplicate 
specimens as may accrue into traveling exhibits and cir- 
culate them as loans to the public schools of the State. 

lb., Sec. 5. Sec. 320. (630) Director to Make Annual Reports. — 

The director shall make an annual report of the expendi- 
ture and general work of the department to the State 
Board of Control, which said board shall publish, and 
tlie director shall from time to time publish and distribute 
bulletins and monographs recording data and exploiting 
the work of the said museum. 

lb-. See. 6. Sec. 321. (631) Assistants. — The director may, subject 

to the approval of the State Board of Control, authorize 
persons in writing to assist him in procuring specimens 
in any section of the State. 

FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN. 



Ch. .5384 
Acts 1905, 
Sec. l2 ; Ch. 
5924, Acts 
1909, Sec. 1, 
revised. 



Sec. 322. (632) Objects; Only Female White Students 
Admitted; Normal Department. — The design of the Flor- 
ida State College for Women shall be to teach and in- 
struct in all the higher branches of education, and in all 
the useful arts and sciences that may be necessary or ap- 
propriate to be taught in like institutions, and as may be 
deemed requisite and necessary from time to time by the 
joint boards herein provided for its governance and con- 
trol. 

None but female white students shall be admitted to 
this institution, and no student shall be admitted therein 
unless and until she shall have passed a satisfactory ex- 
amination in some high school of this or some other State 
having a like standing and through or beyond the tenth 
grades as now established for the high schools in this 
State, or such other grade not lower than the tenth grade 
as may be hereafter established, and no student from any 
other State shall be admitted to such institution, except 
by the consent and upon the certificate of the State Board 
of Control. 



113 

That the State Board of Education jomtly with the 
Board of Control is hereby authorized and empowered at 
any time it may deem the same requisite or necessary, to 
establish and maintain a Normal Department for the in- 
struction of white female teachers in the Florida State 
College for Women, and when established the same shall 
be under the charge and control of the State Board of 
Control, with all the powers and duties in relation thereto 
as provided herein, and under such rules and regulations 
as it shall prescribe. 

Sec. 323. (633) Property Set Apart for Florida State ch. 5384, 
College for Women. — The bonds, property, assets and l^^f 27^?re 
effects, of every nature and description whatsoever, in- vised, 
eluding all the donations belonging to or donated to the 
West Florida Seminary or the Florida State College, its 
successor, and the rents, revenues, issues and profits 
thereof, be and the same is hereby appropriated and set 
apart for the establishment, maintenance and support of 
the Florida State College for Women. 

THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL 
COLLEGE FOR NEGROES. 

Sec. 324. (642) Normal School for Colored Teachers. — ch. 53S4, 
A normal school for the training and instruction of col- fg*f A^^^' 
ored teachers is established under the supervision and 
control of the State Board of Education and the Board 
of Control hereinafter provided. The Board of Control 
shall elect a faculty to consist of a principal and two 
assistant instructors who shall have in charge the train- 
ing and instruction of all students, subject at all times to 
the approval of and under such rules and regulations as 
the Board of Control hereinafter created shall prescribe, 
and such board, under the rules and regulations herein- 
after to be made, shall have the power of removal of all 
or any of the faculty, may increase or diminish the same, 
and may add such other departments of instruction and 
education to such institution from time to time as may be 
deemed advisable. The Colored Normal School now es- 
tablished at Tallahassee shall be such school, and the 
faculty remain as now until changed by said board, but 
the State Board of Education shall have power to change 
the location of same at any time it may deem it of benefit 
or advantage to such institution or the purposes for which 

S — S. Laws 



114 

it was created, and that one-half of the Morrill fund com- 
ing or that may come to the State for the purposes pro- 
vided in such act is set apart and appropriated to the 
support and maintenance of said school. 

ch. 5925, Sec. 325. (643) Name of Colored Normal Scliool 

Acts ^1909, Changed.— That the Colored Normal School as at present 
defined by law be and is hereby changed to and shall be 
known as the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 
lege for Negroes. 

SUMMER SCHOOLS. 

Ch. 6835, Sec. 326. (634) Summer Schools Established; Loca- 

Sec^ 1^'^°' tion. — That there is hereby created and established in 
this State three summer schools, to be located as follows : 
One in connection with the University of Florida, at 
Gainesville; one in connection with the Florida State 
College for Women, at Tallahassee, and one in connection 
with the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Ne- 
groes, at Tallahassee. 

lb., Sec. 2. Sec. 327. (635) In Charge of State Board of Educa- 

tion; Sessions. — The summer schools created herein shall 
be in charge of the State Board of Education, whose duty 
it shall be to hold sessions of one or more of them each 
summer ; the said sessions to begin not later than June 
28th and to continue for a period of not more than ten 
weeks. 

lb., Sec. 3. Sec. 328. (636) Open to All Students; Qualifications of 

Teachers. — The summer schools herebj- created shall be 
open to all students who desire to graduate, and under- 
graduates for professional or vocational work of any 
character, and no teacher shall be employed to teach 
therein who is not a specialist and whose educational 
qualifications have not thoroughly equipped him or her 
for high grade work. 

lb., Sec, 4. Sec. 329. (637) Board Created to Name Teachers of 
Summer Schools. — The president of the University of 
Florida and the president of the Florida State College for 
Women, and the president of the Agricultural and Me- 
chanical College for Negroes shall be president, respec- 
tively, of the summer school conducted with each of said 
institutions, and the president of the University of Flor- 



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ida and the president of the Florida State College for 
"Women, in connection with the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction, shall constitute a board whose duty 
it shall be to name all teachers for the summer schools, to 
prescribe the course of study therefor, and to make such 
further rules and regulations governing the same as they 
may deem fit and proper. 

Sec. 330. (638) Credit for Work Performed by Stu- ib., sec. 5. 
dents. — All work conducted at the said summer schools 
shall be of such character as to entitle the students doing 
the same to collegiate, normal or professional credit 
therefor, and may be applied towards making a degree. 

Sec. 331. (639) Teachers Attending Entitled to Exten- it,., sec 6. 
sion on Teacher's Certificate. — All teachers attending any 
of the summer schools herein created and whose work en- 
titles them to credit therefor, upon making proof of the 
same to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
are hereby entitled to one year's extension on any Florida 
teacher's certificate they may hold and which has not 
fully expired, and such certificate may be extended one 
year for each succeeding session attended by the said 
teacher. 

Sec. 332. Appropriations For. — The sum of Fifteen chap. 844o 
Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars for the year 1921, and the |cts ^1921. 
sum of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars for the ' " "' 
year 1922, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be 
and is hereby appropriated for the maintenance of the 
Summer Schools created by Chapter 6498, Laws of Flor- 
ida, approved June 5th, 1913. 

Sec. 333. (640) Warrants for Cost of Summer Schools. 

— The Comptroller is hereby directed to draw warrants 
upon the requisition of the State Superintendent of Pub- 
lic Instruction out of any funds in the treasury not other- 
wise appropriated for the legitimate cost of said summer 
schools, the amount not to exceed the appropriation made 
in Section Two (2) of this Act. 

Sec. 334. (641) Board of Control to Include Amount 
Necessary for Summer Schools in Annual Budget. — It l^c^g^^^- 
shall be the duty of the Board of Control, upon the re- ' 
quest of the State Superintendent of Public Instruct-ion, 
to include such amount as will be necessary to conduct 



lb., Sec. 3. 



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the summer schools in the manner herein provided in 
their annual budget for the expense and maintenance of 
State, institutions of higher learning. 

FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND THE 
BLIND. 

Acts?905 ^®^' ^^^- ^^^^^ Property of Institute Vested in State 

sec.^ 20 : ch. Board of Education ; Management by Board of Control. — 

1909, sec.^ 1. That the State Board of Education be and the same is 
hereby vested with the title to all the assets and property 
of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind that it 
is now or may hereafter become entitled to, but the con- 
trol, possession and management thereof and of the said 
school and each and every department thereof be and the 
same is hereby vested in the Board of Control according 
to the terms and provisions of this Act except as may be 
herein otherwise provided. 

Ch. 5209. Sec. 336. (645) Who To Be Educated and Maintained. 

Se? 3^; Ch. — The Board of Control shall provide for the education, 
iQn-' vfnHc, care and maintenance at said school of all persons resid- 
mg m this State between the ages oi six and twenty-one 
years of age, who are blind or deaf or dumb : Provided, 
That no person attending said school who is making- 
marked progress on attaining the age of twenty-one years 
shall be dismissed from said school excepting at their own 
option, until such person shall have graduated. 

Ch. 5209, Sec. 337. (646) Admission. — Any person entitled to 

Se? 4^"'^' admission to the said school, or the parent, guardian, or 
next friend of said person, may apply to the board of 
county commissioners of the county of his or her resi- 
dence, and the county commissioners if satisfied that such 
person is entitled to such admission, shall issue a certifi- 
cate to that effect, upon which the applicant shall be re- 
ceived into the school. 



lb.. Sec. 4. 



Sec. 338. (647) Transportation.— The said board of 
county commissioners shall supplj" means of transporta- 
tion of such person to said school, and at the close of each 
term of school the board of trustees shall supply means 
of transportation for the students to their respective 
homes, and return at the opening of the succeeding ses- 
sion thereof, the same to be paid out of the appropriation 
for the maintenance of said school. 



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Sec. 339. (648) Those Who Have the Means to Pay.— 

Those who have the means shall be required to pay the 
necessary expenses, tuition excepted, of their children or 
wards : Provided, That the Board of Control upon the 
recommendation of the superintendent, may allow pupils 
to remain after they reach the age of twenty-one years. 

Sec. 340. (649) The Board of Control to Provide Nec- 
essaries. — The Board of Control shall provide for the 
students of said school necessary bedding, clothing, food 
and medical attendance, and such other things as may be 
proper for the health and comfort of said students. 

Sec. 341. (650) The Board of Control to Employ- 
Teachers, Provide for Examinations, Make Report. — The 

Board of Control shall employ only such teachers as are 
competent to instruct the blind, deaf and dumb, and shall 
provide for the examination of all applicants to teach in 
said school, and shall provide all necessary equipments 
to be used in said school, and shall provide for the equip- 
ment of the industrial department, and shall furnish a 
detailed report of the condition and management, the 
work done and expenditures of said school annually to 
the State Board of Education. 



lb.. See. 4; 
Ch. 5384, 
Acts 1905, 
Sec. 20. 



Ch. 5209, 
Acts 1903, 
Sec. 4 Ch. 
5384, Acts 
1905, Sec. 20. 



Ch. 5209, 
Acts 1903, 
Sec. 5 ; Ch. 
5384, Acts 
1905, Sec. 20. 



STATE BOARD OF CONTROL. 



Sec. 342. (613) Board of Control; Appointment; 
Qualifications, Term of Office, Etc. — That there is hereby 
created a Board of Control which shall consist of five 
citizens of this State, one from East Florida, one from 
South Florida, one from West Florida, one from Middle 
Florida and one from Middle South Florida, who shall 
have been residents and citizens thereof for' a period of 
at least ten years prior to their appointment, who shall 
be appointed by the Governor, and their terms of oifice 
shall be for four years, and until their successors are 
appointed and qtialitied, except that of the first board 
appointed under this act two members thereof shall be 
appointed for the term of two years, and three members 
thereof shall be appointed for the term of four years, and 
thereafter every such appointment shall be for the term 
of four years, except in case of an appointment to fill a 
vacancy, in which case the appointment shall be for the 
unexpired term. The Governor shall have power to re- 



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Acts 1905, 
Sec. 13. 



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move any member of such board for cause, and shall fill 
all vacancies that may at any time occur therein. No 
member of said first board shall be appointed from anj' 
county in -which any of the institutions named in this act 
are at present located, and no appointment upon such 
board shall ever be made from any county in which any 
institution created, established or maintained by this act 
is or may hereafter be located or situate. 

There is nothing in chapter .5384 of the laws of 1903 which conflicts 
with section 3 of article 12 of the Constitution or in any way prohibits 
or -prevents the State Board of Education from exercising "such supervi- 
sion of schools of higher grade as the law shall provide," the act pro- 
viding that the State Board of Control shall be under the supervision of 
the State Board of Education. lb. 

lb., Sec. 14. Sec. 343. (614) Organization of First Board; Chair- 
man; Actual Expenses of Board Paid by State. — That 
immediately upon the passage of this act the Governor 
shall select five of the most capable and efficient citizens 
having the qualifications prescribed herein, and appoint 
the same as herein provided, to constitute such Board of 
Control, whose duty it shall be to immediately, after such 
appointment, assemble at the capital and there organize 
b}' selecting one of their number as chairman. The chair- 
man shall be elected from the long-term members, and 
the chairmanship shall exist dairing his term of office. 
The board shall elect a chairman as often as that office 
shall become vacant. The members of said board shall 
be paid only their actual expenses while in the perform- 
ance of their duties, and in traveling to, from, or upon 
the same, the accounts for w^hich shall be paid quarterly 
by the State Treasurer upon itemized vouchers duly ap- 
proved by the chairman of said board and the Comptrol- 
ler as herein provided for the disbursement of funds. 

lb., Sec. 15. Sec. 344. (615) Board of Control Subject to Super- 
vision of State Board of Education. — Said Board of Con- 
trol, except as herein provided, shall act in conjunction 
with, but at all times under and subject to the control 
and supervision of the State Board of Education. 

lb Sec 19- ^®^- 2^^- (^1^) Powers and Duties of Board of Con- 
Revised.' ' trol. — The Board of Control shall have jurisdiction over 
and complete management and control of all the said 
several institutions and each and every of them, to-wit : 
The University of Florida, The Florida State College for 
Women, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for 



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Negroes, and The Institution for the Blind, Deaf and 
Dumb, and is hereby invested with full power and au- 
thoritj^ to make all rules and regulations necessary for 
their governance not inconsistent with the general rules 
and regulations made or which may be made at any joint 
meeting of the said board with the State Board of Edu- 
cation. To appoint all the managers, faculty, teachers, 
servants and employees, and to remove the same as in 
their judgment and discretion may be best ; fix their com- 
pensation and provide for their payment. To have full 
management, possession an^i control of each and every 
of the said institutions and every department thereof, 
and the lands, buildings, structures and property be- 
longing thereto. To provide for the course of instruc- 
tion and the different branches and grades to be kept 
and maintained thereat, and to alter and change the 
same. To visit and inspect the said institutions and each 
and every department, and to provide for the proper 
keeping of accounts, registers and records thereof. To 
make and prepare all necessary budgets of expenditures 
for the enlargement, proper furnishing, maintenance, 
support and conduct of the same. To audit and approve 
all the accounts and expenditures, supervise the employ- 
ment and removal of all teachers and instructors ; select 
and purchase all property, furniture, fixtures, parapher- 
nalia necessary for the same from time to time ; to build, 
construct, change, enlarge, repair and maintain any and 
all the buildings or structures now in existence, or that 
may hereafter be necessary for each and every of said 
institutions created and maintained by law; to purchase 
and acquire all lands and property necessary for same 
of every nature and description whatsoever; and to care 
for and maintain the same, and to do and perform every 
other matter or thing requisite to the proper manage- 
ment, maintenance, support and control of each and every 
of the said institutions necessary or requisite to carry out 
fully the purposes of this act, and for raising to and main- 
taming them at the proper efficiency and standard as 
required in and by the provisions of law, but at all times 
subject to the supervision and control of the State Board 
of Education. 

Sec. 346. (617) Disbursements for Institutions Made ib., sec 34. 
on Written Voucher by Board of Control. — No moneys 
shall be expended for and on behalf of any of the said 



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iiistitiitions, or any department thereof, except upon a 
written voucher drawn by the Board of Control, in dupli- 
cate, stating the nature of said expenditure, and the per- 
son to whom the same shall be made payable, which 
vouchers shall be submitted to the Comptroller of the 
State of Florida, and audited and approved by him, and 
upon such approval the Comptroller shall draw his war- 
rant upon the State Treasurer for the payment thereof, 
transmitting duplicate of said voucher approved by him 
to the Treasurer, and shall file the other duplicate of said 
voucher approved by him in his office. No voucher shall 
be issued or drawn by the Board of Control for the pay- 
ment of any moneys except the same be approved by said 
board in regular session and countersigned by the chair- 
man and secretary thereof. 

lb., Sec. 3.5. Sec. 347. (618) Board of Control Incorporated; Pow. 
^ ers, Etc. — The State Board ofi Control shall be a body 
corporate, and shall have a corporate seal, to be selected 
by it at its first meeting ; shall elect a secretarj^, and re- 
move him at will ; have and employ all necessary clerks 
and servants ; shall have power to contract and be con- 
tracted with ; sue and be sued ; plead and to be impleaded 
in all courts of law and equity ; to receive donations ; to 
mak'e purchases of lands and tenements, and to contract 
for the sale and disposal of the same, but the title to all 
such donations and property, however acquired, shall be 
vested in the State Board of Education, and shall only 
be transferred and conveyed by it, and shall have and 
possess all the powers of a body corporate for all the 
purposes created hy or that may exist under the provi- 
sions of this act, or any act or acts amendatory thereof. 

lb., Sec. 38. Sec. 348. (619) Board Authorized to Provide Examina- 
tions for High Schools. — That the said Board of Control 
are hereby authorized and empowered to provide a sys- 
tem and course of written examinations by question and 
answers for all the public high schools in the State, and 
that no pupil shall be admitted to said high schools or 
be advanced to any successive grade therein, or shall be 
permitted to enter any institution created or maintained 
in and by this act until such examinations have been had 
according to such procedure, and the result of said ex- 
aminations shall have been approved by the said Board 
of Control in each instance and a certificate of such ad- 



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mission or advancement by the said Board of Control, 
and the said board shall have power to alter and change 
these rules and regulations from time to time where it 
shall be deemed necessary, and shall provide all the nec- 
essary blanks and distribute the same for such purpose. 

Sec. 349. (620) Board Empowered to Exercise Rig-ht oii. (3174, 
of Eminent Domain. — Whenever it becomes necessary for Acts ^lofi, 
the welfare and convenience of the Florida State College 
for Women, the University of Florida, the School for the 
Deaf and the Blind and the Florida Agricultural and 
Mechanical College for Negroes, to acquire private prop- 
erty for the use of said institutions, and the same cannot 
be acquired by agreement satisfactory to the Board of 
Control and the parties interested in, or the owners of 
said private property, the Board of Control is hereby em- 
powered and authorized to exercise the right of eminent 
domain, and to proceed to condemn the said property in 
the same manner as provided by law for the condemna- 
tion of property. 

Sec. 350. (621) Attorney-General to Represent Board 
in Condemnation Proceedings. — Any suits or actions 
brought by the said Board of Control to condemn prop- 
erty, as provided in Section 620, shall be brought in the 
name of the Board of Control, and it shall be the duty of 
the Attorney-General of the State of Florida, to conduct 
the proceedings for, and to act as, the counsel of the 
said Board of Control. 



lb.. See. 2. 



BOARD OF CONTROL IN RE EXTENSION 
DIVISION. 

Sec. 351. To Extend Educational Institutions. — The ^.j^ -c,^- 
State Board of Control is hereby empowered and directed Acts loio 
to extend the outside work of the educational institutions 
under its direction into all fields of human endeavor 
which, in its judgment, will best accomplish the objects 
herein expressed. 

Sec. 352. To Gather Information. — It shall be the duty ib. Fee. :; 
of the Board of Control to gather information on all sub- 
jects useful to the people of Florida, and to carry it to 



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them in ways that will help them most in the shortest 
time ; to spread knowledge among them by taking it to 
them in an attractive war: to stimulate thought and en- 
courage every movement among the people for their 
mutual improvement. 

lb., Sec. 3. Sec. 353. To Enlarge Work of Extension Division.— 

To carry out the provisions of this Act, the Board of Con- 
trol is hereby empowered to enlarge the work now done 
by the Extension Divisions of the University of Florida, 
and the State College for Women, as it may from time 
to time deem advisable, and to emploj^ all needful per- 
sons and appliances to carry on the work in the most 
efficient manner. 

lb., Sec. 4. Sec. 351. To Seek Out Students.— It shall be the duty 

of the Board of Control to seek out, among all the schools 
of Florida, every student who may by nature have a 
special aptitude and genius for some one branch of learn- 
ing, and to encourage him in the prosecution of the study 
of that branch, to the end that he may become an expert 
and a leader in that subject. 

lb.. Sec. 5. ^^°' 2^^- Appropriation for the Work.— The sum of 

$50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 
appropriated out of the general revenue fund to carry 
out the work herein authorized, for a period of two (2) 
years and one (1) month from June 1st, 1919, to June 
30th, 1921, and shall be expended as follows : 

Salary of Director, one year , $ 3,000 

Salary of Field Agent, one year 3,000 

Salary of Office Assistants, Stenographers, Filing 

Clerks, and Librarians, one year 2,700 

Extra pay for Professors engaged in outside work, 

estimated for 352 days at $5.00 per day, one year... 1,760 
Extra pay for ten students assisting in Avork in 

office at $300 each, one year 3,000 

Pay for Lecturers and Entertainers, one year 500 



$13,960 
Appropriation for items listed above may be trans- 
ferred from one to another as need may arise. 
Traveling expenses for Field Agent, estimated 150 

days at $7 per day, one year $ 1,050 

Traveling expenses for Professors and Students 

engaged in outside work, one year 1,290 



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Traveling expenses for Lecturers and Entertain- 
ers, one year - ■" ■■.•■: 

Contingencies, telegrams, researches, advertising 

and extra salaries, one year " ^'^^^ 

$ 4,340 
Appropriations £or items listed above may be trans- 
ferred from one to another as need may arise. 

Subscription for Periodicals, one year $ &UU 

Printing, one year |' ^^J^ 

Stamps, one year ^''f^'i 

Purchase of Correspondent Courses, one year i,uuu 

Purchase of slides and films, one year ■_• -,UUU 

Purchase of filing cases, writing machines, and 

other office furniture, one year ^^^ 

$ 6,700 

Total $25,000 

Add for second year - ^5>QQQ 

$50,000 

Sec. 356. Duty of Comptroller; Board of Control to jb., see. 
Report —The Comptroller shall draw his warrant on the 
State Treasurer on the order of the Board of Control 
upon this fund. The Board of Control shall make report 
in detail of the expenditure of this fund, and & general 
report of the work done, which report shall be included 
in its bi-ennial report to the Government. 

BOARD OF CONTROL IN RE AGRICULTURAL 
EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Sec 357. (651) Experimental Station.— There shall be ch.^4234,^ 
established at some suitable point in Florida possessing see. i. 
climatic conditions for growing all kinds of plant lite 
including cinchona, logwood and camphor, olive and 
India rubber trees, also manilla, tea, coffee, jute, New 
Zealand flax, etc., on muck lands over which the trustees 
of the internal improvement fund have exclusive control 
under the act of Congress of September 28 1850, an ex- 
perimental station, to be operated by or under the super- 
vision of the Commissioner of Agriculture, and under 
such rules, regulations and conditions as may be pre- 



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scribed by the trustees of the mternal improvement fund 
of the State of Florida. 

lb., Sec. 2. Sec. 358. (652) Duties of Trustees of I. I. Fund.— For 

the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the pre- 
ceding section, and to create a fund for the establishment 
and maintenance of said agricultural station, and for the 
further drainage and reclamation of the lands set apart 
for that purpose, the trustees of the internal improvement 
fund of the State of Florida are hereby authorized and 
directed to set apart one hundred thousand acres of the 
land granted by the State of Florida by the act of Con- 
gress of September 28, 1850, to be sold at such prices as 
may be fixed by the trustees, and the proceeds thereof 
to be expended by the said trustees of the internal im- 
provement fund in carrying out the provisions of said 
section. 

ch. 5704, Sec. 359. (653) Act of Congress Assented to; Federal 

Sec^ i"*"^*^^' Appropriation. — That the objects and purposes contained 
in the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to Provide for 
An Increased Annual Appropriation for Agricultural 
Experiment Stations and Regulating the Expenditure 
Thereof," be and the same are hereby assented to, and 
the State Board of Education of the State of Florida is 
hereby authorized to accept and receive the annual ap- 
propriations for the use and benefit of the agricultural 
experiment station fund of the agricultural department 
of the University of the State of Florida, located at 
Gainesville, upon the terms and conditions contained in 
said act of Congress. 

cb. 7379, Sec. 360. (654) Board of Control Authorized to Es- 

secliand2 t^^lish Branch Experiment Station.— That the board of 
control be authorized and directed to locate, establish 
and maintain a branch experiment station, in or near 
Winter Haven, Polk county, in the citrus growing section 
of the State, where insect pests, diseases and other agen- 
cies affecting the production of citrus fruits and citrus 
trees shall be studied. That the supervision and direc- 
tion of the research vork of such a laboratory shall be 
vested in the board of control. 

lb.. Sec. 3. S®c- 361. (655) Board of Control Authorized to Accept 

Donations. — That the board of control is hereby author- 
ized to accept donations of lands, groves, monies, or 



Acts 1915, 
Sec. 1. 



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other things of value that may be utilized in conducting 
the aforesaid investigations : Provided, That no branch 
station shall be established if such lands, groves, monies 
and other things of value be less than ten thousand dol- 
lars value. 

BOARD OF CONTROL IN RE AGRICULTURAL AND 
HOME ECONOMICS EXTENSION WORK. 

Sec. 362. (656) Assent to Provisions of Certain Act ch. essa 
of Congress; Board of Control Authorized to Receive 
Grants, Etc. — That the Legislature of the State of Flor- 
ida in behalf of and for the said State does hereby assent 
to and does hereby give its assent to the provisions and 
requirements of a certain Act of Congress approved by 
the President May 8, 1914, being entitled "An Act to 
Provide for Co-operative Agricultural Extension Work 
between the Agricultural Colleges in the several States 
receiving the benefits of the Act of Congress, approved 
July 2, 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the 
United States Department of Agriculture," and that the 
board of control, having supervision over and control of 
the University of Florida, located at Gainesville, Florida, 
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to 
receive the grants of money appropriated under said Act 
of Congress, and to organize and conduct agricultural 
and home economics extension work, which shall be car- 
ried on in connection with the said University of Florida, 
in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed in 
said Act of Congress. 

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. 

Sec. 363. (660) State Accepts Provisions of Certain 
Act of Congress; Good Faith of State Pledged. — That 
the State of Florida hereby accepts the provisions of the 
Act of Congress, approved February 23, 1917, entitled, 
"An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational edu- 
cation; to provide for co-operation with the States in the 
promotion of such education of agriculture and the trades 
and industries ; to provide for co-operation with the 
States in the preparation of teachers of vocational sub- 
jects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expen- 
ditures." The good faith of the State is hereby pledged 
to make available for the several purposes of said Act 



Ch. 7376, 
Acts 1917, 
Sec. 1. 



126 

funds sufficient at least to equal the sums allotted, from 
time to time, to this State from the appropriations made 
by said act and to meet all conditions necessary to entitle 
the State to the benefits of said act. 

lb., Sec. 2. Sec. 364. (661) State Treasurer Custodian of Fund, — 

The State Treasurer is hereby designated custodian of 
all funds allotted to this State from the appropriations 
made by said act, and he shall receive and provide for 
the proper custody and disbursement of the same in ac- 
cordance with said act. 

lb., Sec. 3. Sec. 365. (662) State Vocational Education Board 
Created; Duties. — The State Board of Education is here- 
by created the State vocational education board contem- 
plated in Section five of said Act of Congress, and said 
board is hereby designated, authorized and required to 
co-operate as provided in and required by the aforesaid 
Act of Congress, with the federal boarcl of vocational 
education, in the administration of the provisions of said 
act, and to do all things necessary to entitled the State 
to receive the benefits thereof. 

lb., Sec. 4. Sec. 366. (663) University of Florida and Florida 

State College for Women Designated for Vocational 
Training. — The State vocational board shall designate 
the University of Florida at Gainesville' and the Florida 
State College for "Women at Tallahassee as the schools 
for the training of teachers of agricultural, trade, indus- 
trial and home economics subjects, the one for men and 
the other for women. 

^ _ Sec. 367. (664) Powers of State Vocational Education 

amended by Board. — The State vocational education board shall have 
i9i9,^s°e"c. 1. all necessary authority to co-operate with the federal 
board for vocational education in the administration of 
said Act of Congress; and to administer any legislation 
pursuant thereto enacted by the State of Florida ; and to 
administer the funds provided by the Federal govern- 
ment and the State of Florida under the provisions of 
this Chapter for the promotion of vocational education 
in agricultural subjects, trade and industrial subjects, 
and home economics subjects. It shall have full author- 
itj to formulate plans for the promotion of vocational 
education in such subjects as an essential and integral 
part of the public school system of education in the State 



127 

of Florida, and to provide for the preparation of teachers 
in such subjects. It shall have authority to fix the com- 
pensation of such officials and assistants as may be neces- 
sary to administer the Federal Act, and this Chapter for 
the State of Florida, and to pay such compensation and 
other necessary expenses of administration from funds 
appropriated in this Chapter. It shall have authority to 
make studies and investigations relating to vocational 
education in such subjects; to promote and aid in the 
establishment by local communities of schools, depart- 
ments or classes ; to prescribe qualifications for the teach- 
ers, directors and supervisors of such subjects and to 
have full authority to provide for the certification of 
such teachers, directors and supervisors. It shall have 
full authority to co-operate with local communities in the 
maintenance of schools, departments or classes, or to es- 
tablish such schools, departments or classes under its own 
direction and control. It shall have full authority to 
establish and determine by general regulations the quali- 
fications to be possessed by persons engaged in the train- 
ing of vocational teachers. 

Sec. 368. (665) State Superintendent of Public Instruc- ^^jg^^I^^v 
tion Is Executive Officer of the Board; Eules and Regu- see. 6, as' 
lations; Records.— That the State Superintendent of Pub- 0^7952,^^ 
lie Instruction, who is ex-officio a member of the State Acts i9i9, 
vocational board, shall act as executive officer of the 
board for the purpose of administering the said Federal 
Act and this Chapter, and shall, by and with the advice 
and consent of the State vocational education board, 
designate such assistants as shall be necessary to properly 
carry out the provisions of this Chapter. The State". 
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall also carry 
into effect such rules and regulations as the State voca- 
tional education board may adopt for the promotion of 
vocational education in this State as the State vocational 
education board may require. The records of the State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction, as far as they per- 
tain to the provisions of this Chapter, shall be kept in. 
his office in the capitol of the State. 

Sec. 369. (666) Counties, and Trustees of Any Educa- Stall^V 

tional Institution May Maintain Vocational Schools. see. 7, as' 

The Board of Public Instruction of any county, or the Ch.^79?!, Sts^ 
Board of Trustees of any educational institution, main- tel^i^^^' 



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taining a department of less than college grade under 
public control, may establish and maintain vocational 
schools, departments, or classes, giving instruction of 
less than college grade in agriculture, trades and indus- 
tries, or in home economics, and any such Board of Pub- 
lic Instruction or Board of Trustees may use any moneys 
raised by public taxation in the same manner as moneys 
for other school purposes are used for the maintenance 
and support of public schools or classes of less than col- 
lege grade. 

cia. 737G. §60. 370. (667) Schools or Classes Established Entitled 

tec^ 8 ^as' ^^ Federal and State Aid. — Whenever anj" school or 
amended by classcs havc been oro-anized in accordance with rules and 

Cli. 79.j2. Acts '^ 

1919. Sec. 4. regulations adopted by the State vocational education 
board and shall have been approved by the State voca- 
tional education board, the district or institutions main- 
taining the same, shall be entitled to share in Federal 
and State funds available for the promotion of vocational 
education to an amount not less than fifty per cent of the 
moneys expended for the salaries of teachers for voca- 
tional subjects in such approved schools or classes. 



Chap. 84.36. 



Sec. 371. Appropriation to Carry Out Act of Con- 
Acts 1921. gress. — For the purpose of carrying out an Act of Con- 
gress and Sections 660 to 667, both inclusive, of the Re- 
vised General Statutes of Florida, the sum of Forty-two 
Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty-seven Dollars ($42,787) 
shall be available July 1, 1921, and the sum of Forty- 
seven Thousand Four Hundred Eighteen Dollars ($47,- 
418) shall be available July 1, 1922, and the said sums 
are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the State 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



lb. Sec. 2. 



Sec. 372. Amount for Administration. — The money 
appropriated under Section 1 of this Act shall be paid 
out hy the State Treasurer under the order of the State 
Vocational Education Board, provided that not more than 
Five Thousand Dollars shall be expended annually by 
said Board for the purpose of administration, research, 
investigation, etc., as provided for in Section 660 of the 
Revised General Statutes. 



REGULATIONS AND FORMS 

PRESCRIBED BY THE 

State Board of Education. 



Department of Public Instruction. 

In compliance with Section 16 and Paragraphs First 
and Seventh of Section 28 of this Compilation, the follow- 
ing Regulations, Instructions and Forms have been pre- 
scribed by the State Board of Education for the use and 
guidance of school officers and teachers and have the full 
force of law. 



REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS. 

General. 

Regulation 1. Eligibility to School Office. — Persons to 
be eligible to school offices or positions must be of good 
moral character, temperate, upright, responsible, compe- 
tent and in full sympathy with the public educational 
system of the State. 

Reg. 2. Force of Regulations. — All Rules and Regula- 
tions prescribed by County Boards of Public Instruction 
not at variance with the Statutes or the Regulations and 
Instructions of the State Board of Education, shall have 
the full force and effect of law, and must be respected 
accordingly. 

Reg. 3. Use of Blanks. — County school officers and 
teachers shall in all cases use the blanks, forms, registers, 
etc., prescribed and furnished by the State Department. 

COUNTY BOARDS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

Reg. 4. To Be Commissioned. — Members of County 
Boards of Public Instruction before assuming the office, 
must be commissioned. 

9 — S. Laws 



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Reg-. 5. To Hold Regular Meetings. — County Boards 
of Public Instruction shall hold regular meetings, at least 
monthly, during the session of schools, when they shall 
examine carefully all teachers' reports, issue warrants, 
hear reports of the County Superintendent and transact 
other business. 

Reg. 6. When to Issue Warrants. — County Boards of 
Public Instruction shall not issue a warrant to any 
teacher, until the monthly report of said teacher, on 
which the warrant is based, be made in conformity with 
the blanks furnished and in compliance with the direc- 
tions given in the Teacher's Register. 

Reg. 7. When to Contract with Teachers. — County 
Boards of Public Instruction shall not contract with any 
person to teach a school who does not hold a Teacher's 
Certificate, unimpaired by suspension, revocation or limi- 
tation, and granted in accordance with law. Nor shall 
any person be entitled to compensation from the public 
fund until he has been employed and contracted with by 
the County School Board. 

Reg. 8. To Assign Teachers. — It is the duty of County 
Boards of Public Instruction to select, assign and contract 
with teachers. This duty can in no case be delegated to 
Supervisors or patrons ; but the Supervisor or Trustees 
may report to the County Board, for its consideration, 
the names of such teachers as are best suited to the re- 
quirements of the school and most satisfactory to the 
patrons. 

Reg. 9. When to Assign Teachers. — County Boards of 
Public Instruction shall, at the first regular meeting in 
June of each year, proceed to assign teachers to schools 
for the ensuing scholastic year, selecting as teachers only 
those holding valid Florida Certificates. Salaries may be 
fixed and contracts entered into at a subsequent meeting. 
All vacancies that may exist shall be filled in like manner. 

Reg. 10. To Avoid Favoritism. — The State Board of 
Education earnestly admonishes County Boards of Pub- 
lic Instruction to exercise great caution in the employ- 
ment of teachers, that they may not subject themselves 
to the charge of Ijeing influenced by personal or political 
favoritism, sectarianism, or by ties of relationship. 



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Reg. 11. To Print Rules and Regulations, Etc. — The 

State Board of Education recommends the adoption by 
County Boards of a system of rules and regulations for 
their guidance and for the government of schools, teach- 
ers, and pupils. Such rules and regulations should be 
printed in pamphlet form and copies of the same filed in 
the office of the State Department. The State Super- 
intendent shall, upon request, furnish a copy of such 
pamphlet to other County Boards. 

Reg. 12. Arbor Day. — The State Board of Education 
names the first Friday after the first Monday of January 
of each year as Arbor Day, which shall not be observed 
as a holiday, but shall be devoted to the planting of trees 
on school grounds or other appropriate public places, to- 
gether with suitable exercises, lesson or lectures designed 
to interest and instruct the children in the care and cul- 
tivation of trees. No teacher should be allowed compen- 
sation for Arbor Day, unless a prescribed number of trees 
has been properly planted and securely protected against 
injury. 

Reg. 13. May Require Tuition Fees. — County Boards 
of Public Instruction should adopt a regulation requiring 
pupils from other States, or from other counties, to pay 
a specified tuition fee to the teacher, to be by him paid 
to the County Superintendent, and reported by the latter 
to the County Board. 

Reg. 14. To Observe 3 Mile Limit. — The attention of 
County Boards of Public Instruction is called to the 
fact that the law expressly prohibits the establishing of 
schools, for the same race, nearer than three miles of 
each other, unless made necessary by local geographical 
features. Where this law has been violated in the past, 
it is the duty of County Boards to proceed as speedily as 
consistent with the interest of all concerned, to combine 
two or more schools into one, when practicable, or other- 
wise rearrange them so as to conform to Paragraph Sixth, 
Section 53 of this compilation. 

Reg. 15. To District Counties. — County Boards of Pub- 
lic Instruction are directed and enjoined to sub-divide 
their respective counties into convenient and permanent 
school districts, for each race separately, and to keep a 
record of each district by name, number, and description 



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of lands contained therein, or by boundaries, in order 
that specific knowledge may be had as to the metes and 
bounds of each school district. It shall be the duty of 
said Boards to furnish each Supervisor or Board of Trus- 
tees with a proper description of the territory embraced 
within its jurisdiction. 

Reg. 16. To Restrict School Attendance to Proper Dis- 
trict. — It shall be the duty of each County Board to adopt 
necessary- regulations to restrict the attendance of pupils 
to the school within their own district, except as the 
Board may by special permit or by regulation allow at- 
tendance elsewhere ; Provided, All pupils of the county, 
qualified therefor, may attend the county high school. 

Reg. 17. Not to Contract for a Term Beyond the Life 
of a Certificate. — Count}- Boards of Public Instruction 
shall not enter into a contract with any teacher for a 
term of service extending beyond the life of the certifi- 
cate held by the teacher. 

Reg. 18. To Remove Trustees and Appoint. — Countj'^ 
Boards of Public Instruction shall have the authority' to 
remove any member of a Board of Trustees of a special 
tax school district who fails to discharge his duty. All 
vacancies in Boards of Trustees shall be filled for the un- 
expired term by the County Board of Public Instruction 
upon nomination by the patrons of the school. 

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 
INSTRUCTION. 

Reg. 19. Notice of Examinations. — The County Super- 
intendent shall advertise for at least two weeks prior 
thereto the time and place of eYery teachers' examination 
held by the State Board of Examiners in his own or an 
adjoining county. 

Reg. 20. Arrange for Examinations. — The County Su- 
perintendent shall make all necessary arrangements for 
all teachers' examinations, providing when necessary sep- 
arate places for white and negro examinees. 

Reg. 21. When He May Appoint Teachers. — In case a 
vacancy occurs in the teaching force of any school be- 
tween the regular meetings of the Board, the Counts- 
Superintendent is authorized to fill the same, subject to 
the ratification of the Board at its next regular meeting. 



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SUPERVISORS AND TRUSTEES. 

Reg. 22. How Governed. — School Supervisors and 
Trustees shall be governed in the general discharge of 
their duties by the directions and the Rules and Regula- 
tions of the County Board of Public Instruction. 

Reg. 23. Powers Defined. — The office of Supervisor or 
Trustee is not one of control, but of supervision only. 
Schools while in session are under the immediate control 
of the County Board of Public Instruction. But in case 
of emergency, the County Superintendent may suspend 
or close a school, subject to the action of the Board at its 
next meeting. 

Reg. 24. Discretionary Powers of County Superinten- 
dents. — The patrons may recommend to the County Su- 
perintendent suitable persons for Supervisors (Sec. 53, 
Par. Third) ; but the County Superintendent may exer- 
cise some discretion in nominating such to the Board of 
Public Instruction for appointment (Sec. 90, Par. Fifth). 

Reg. 25. Trustees Supersede Supervisors. — The posi- 
tion of Supervisor is superseded by a Board of Trustees, 
when a school district becomes a special tax district. The 
duties prescribed for Supervisor shall then be performed 
by the Trustees. 

TEACHERS. 

Reg. 26. Primary Duties of Teachers. — Before begin- 
ning a school a teacher must exhibit to the County Super- 
intendent a certificate unimpaired by suspension, revoca- 
tion or limitation, enter into a contract, procure a register 
and all necessary blanks. He must keep his register in 
accordance with the printed directions therein, and must 
make out his monthly reports in strict conformity to the 
blanks furnished. 

Reg. 27. Corporal Punishment. — Teachers are notified 

that there is nothing in the school laws of the State pro- 
hibiting the infliction of corporal punishment when in 
their judgment it is necessary ; Provided, however. That 
such punishment shall not be unnecessarily severe. 

Reg. 28. Prerequisites for State Certificates. — Appli- 
cants for examination for State certificates must file with 



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the State Superintendent of Public Instruction written 
evidence of having taught successfully twenty-four 
months in all before offering for examination. 

Reg. 29. Prerequisites for All Life Certificates. — An 

applicant for the extension of any kind of certificate into 
a life certificate must file with the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction a valid certificate and satisfactory 
written evidence, on and in conformity with blanks fur- 
nished, of having taught successfully the full time re- 
quired by law for the conversion of that particular cer- 
tificate into a life certificate. 

Reg. 30. Teachers Should Advance Their Certificates. 

— "All teachers should of their own purpose seek from 
time to time to advance the class of their certificates by 
diligent and persistent study and the constant reading of 
the best journals of school work, and books treating of 
methods, discipline and government of the school, and so 
pass from the lowest to the highest grade of certificate, 
and carry with it the increased capacity for the true 
work of the school room. County Superintendents dis- 
covering a dispositon on the part of certain teachers to 
remain content with any certificate they may be fortunate 
enough to obtain, exhibiting no desire to rise higher or 
to become better qualified for their important work, 
should at once report the same to the Board of Public 
Instruction and recommend their removal from the corps 
of teachers in the county." — Hon. A. J. Russell, Reg. of 
1891. 



HIGH SCHOOL EEGULATIONS. 

(As amended and re-adopted by the State Board of Edu- 
cation, March 5, 1915.) 

The Regulations of the State Board of Education Pre- 
scribing Minimum Requirements for Accrediting 
High Schools. 

These regulations are based upon Sections 160 and 164 
of this compilation, which provide for only two grades of 
high schools, Junior and Senior ; but the State Board of 
Education thought best to authorize three grades. Junior, 
Intermediate, and Senior High Schools. 



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JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. 

Regulation 1. No school shall be recognized as a Junior 
High School which does not meet each of the following 
requirements : 

1st. The term shall not be less than 8 months, or 160 
days. 

2nd. The average daih^ attendance of all pupils shall 
not be less than 50. 

3rd. It must have in regular attendance not less than 
a total of 10 pupils in one or both of the Ninth and Tenth 
grades, regularly and properly promoted from the grade 
next below. 

4th. It must employ not less than a total of 4 teachers, 
each legally certified according to the laws of this State, 
and devoting all of his or her time to teaching in the 
school. 

5th. The principal shall hold either a Life State or 
State Certificate, or a valid First Grade Certificate issued 
under the laws of this State and, in addition, a Special 
Certificate covering all the academic branches or subjects, 
not covered by a First Grade Certificate, embraced in and 
prescribed in the Uniform Course of Study for the Ninth 
and Tenth Grades. 

6th. At least one capable teacher must devote all of 
his or her time to teaching the Ninth and Tenth grades, 
and where there is but one teacher giving full time to 
these two grades, but one of the Uniform Courses of 
Study must be offered. 

7th. The average length of recitation periods in the 
two high school grades shall not be less than 40 minutes. 

8th. All pupils in high school grades must at all times 
carry not less than four academic subjects; provided, that 
some vocational, industrial, or elective study may occupy 
one recitation period. 

9th. The building must have not less than four ample 
and well adapted recitation rooms, all properly equipped 
with patent desks, blackboards, and other necessary 
teaching appliances. 

10th. It must have laboratory equipment and a well 
selected library, each worth not less than $100. 



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INTERMEDIATE HIGH SCHOOLS. 

"Reg. 2. No school shall be recognized as an Inter- 
mediate High School which does not meet each of the 
following requirements : 

1st. The term shall not be less than 8 months, or 160 

2nd. The average daily attendance of all pupils shall 
not be less than 100. 

3rd. It must have in regular attendance not less than 
a total of 20 pupils in the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh 
grades, 5 of whom must be in the Eleventh grade, all 
regularly and properly promoted from the next grade 
below. 

4th. It must employ not less than two teachers, ex- 
clusive of the principal, each legally certificated accord- 
ing to the laws of this State and devoting all of his or 
her time to teaching high school classes ; the certificate 
held by each shall be a Life State or State Certificate, or 
a First Grade Certificate and a Special Certificate cover- 
ing all the academic branches or subjects each teaches em- 
braced in and prescribed in one of the Uniform Courses 
of Study for the three lowest high school grades. 

5th. Every teacher of any subject must hold a certi- 
ficate covering the particular subject taught. 

6th. The principal shall hold either a State Life or 
State Certificate, and shall not hear more than four regu- 
lar recitations a day. 

7th. The average length of recitation periods, in all 
high school grades, shall not be less than 45 minutes. 

8th. All pupils in high school grades must carry all 
the time not less than four academic subjects ; provided, 
that some vocational, industrial, or elective subject may 
take the period of one subject. 

9th. The building must have not less than seven ample 
and well adapted recitation rooms, all properly equipped 
with patent desks, blackboards, and other necessary 
teaching appliances. 

10th. It must have laboratory equipment and a well 
selected library of books, each worth less than $150. 



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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. " 

Reg. 3. No school shall be recognized as a Senior High 
School which does not meet each of the following require- 
ments : 

1st. The term shall not be less than 8 months, or 160 
days. 

2nd. The average daily attendance of all pupils shall 
not be less than 150. 

3rd. It must have in regular attendance not less than 
a total of 30 pupils in the four high school grades, not 
less than a total of 10 pupils in the tw^o highest grades, 
all regularl}^ and properly promoted from the grade next 
below. 

4th. It must employ not less than three teachers, ex- 
clusive of the principal, each legally certificated accord- 
ing to the laws of this State and devoting all of his or 
her time to teaching high school classes; the certificate 
held hy each shall be a Life State or State Certificate, or 
a First Grade Certificate and a Special Certificate cover- 
ing all the specific academic branches or subjects each 
teaches, embraced in and prescribed in one of the Uni- 
form Courses of Stud3\ 

5th. Every teacher of any subject must hold a certi- 
ficate covering the particular subject taught. 

6th. The principal shall hold either a Life State or 
State Certificate, and shall not hear more than three reg- 
ular recitations a day. 

7th. The average length of recitation periods in all 
high school grades shall not be less than 45 minutes. 

8th. All pupils in high school grades must carry all 
the time not less than four academic subjects ; provided, 
that some vocational, industrial, or elective subject may 
take the period of one subject. 

9th. The building must have not less than eight ample 
and well adapted recitation rooms, all properly equipped 
with patent desks, blackboards, and other necessary 
teaching appliances. 

10th. It must have laboratory" equipment and a well 
selected library of books, each worth not less than $200. 



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GENERAL. 

Reg. 4. The State Board construes the legal meaning 
of the Avord teacher to be one legally licensed according 
to the certification laws of this State, regularly elected 
and contracted with by a County Board of Public In- 
struction, devoting his or her entire time to school work, 
and paid for services directly by warrant of the County 
Board of Public Instruction. 

Reg. 5. Tlie Uniform Course of Study, or its equiva- 
lent with such modifications or additions by local school 
authorities as may be submitted to and approved by the 
State Board of Education, is the minimum requirement 
for graduation from any grade of high school. 

SUGGESTED REGULATIONS. 

Reg. 6. It is urgently recommended that the final an- 
nual examinations of all high school grades, after the 
school year 1914-15, be uniform throughout the State 
upon questions submitted by the State Inspector of High 
Schools, and that promotions and graduations be partly 
based upon these examinations. 

Reg. 7. It is further recommended that all high school 
diplomas for the different Courses of Study and grades 
be uniform for that course or grade, be furnished by the 
State, and be signed by the Governor, the State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction, the Inspector of High 
Schools, one or all, and local school authorities. 

Reg. 8. All past Regulations relating to high schools, 
adopted by the State Board of Education and in conflict 
with these eight Regulations, are hereby annulled. 



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REGULATIONS FOR TEACHER-TRAINING DEPART- 
MENTS IN HIGH SCHOOLS. 

(Adopted by the State Board of Education, 
August 28, 1916.) 

These Regulations Are Based Upon Sections 35 and 36 of 
This Compilation. 

Regulation 1. The Teachers. — The teacher of the 
Teacher-Training Department shall not be the principal 
of the High School, nor shall the Five Hundred Dollars 
($500.00) appropriated by the State for such Department 
be used in supplementing the salary of a principal, though 
the principal, or other capable teachers, may hear one or 
more recitations in said Department. 

Reg. 2. State Board Must Approve Teacher. — No per- 
son shall be selected as teacher of any Teacher-Training 
Department who does not hold a valid Florida teacher's 
certificate, and the teacher of such Department in every 
County High School may be nominated by the County 
Board of Public Instruction, but must be approved by 
the State Board of Education before any appropriation 
will be made by said State Board for the salary of the 
teacher of any such Department. 

Reg. 3. Qualifications of Teachers. — In the selection of 
teachers for such Training Departments preference shall 
be given to holders of Florida State Certificates, or to 
regular graduates of Standard Normal Schools who are 
legally certificated in this State, presenting satisfactory 
evidence of having had successful experience as teachers ; 
Provided, That if it be necessary to employ teachers for 
such Departments with less qualifications than above pre- 
scribed, every such teacher shall be the holder of a valid 
First Grade Florida Certificate and a Special Certificate 
on Psychology, History of Education, and the Theory and 
Practice of Teaching, the latter also taken in Florida. 

Reg. 4. Duty of County Boards. — Any Countj' seeking 
to establish a Teacher-Training Department in any school 
within such County must appropriate from County School 
funds not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500) for the 
salary of the teacher of such Department, which, with 
the appropriation by the State Board of Education, fixes 



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the salary of such teacher at not less than One Thousand 
Dollars ($1,000) for eight months' service; Provided, 
That any County Board of Public Instruction shall not be 
prohibited from making the salary greater than One 
Thousand Dollars ; Provided further. That more than one 
teacher may be employed for such Department and be 
paid from County or District fund, one or both. 

Reg'. 5. Salary How Paid. — The salary of the teacher 
of every Teacher-Training Department shall be paid for 
the first four months from County- funds. The Five Hun- 
dred Dollars appropriated from State funds shall be 
transmitted to the County Board of Public Instruction 
for the payment of the salary of the teacher for the last 
four months of the school; Provided, That monthly re- 
ports of such Department shall be made as required, on 
blanks furnished, to the State Board of Education and 
must show that the said Department has met all the re- 
quirements of the law and of these regulations. 

Reg. 6. Number of Pupils, Age and Qualifications. — 

Any school, before receiving State appropriation in aid 
of the establishment of a Teacher-Training Department, 
must present evidence that not less than ten (10) teacher- 
pupils will regularly attend such Department. Each of 
such pupils must be sixteen years of age, or over, and 
must have regularly and creditably completed at least the 
Eighth Grade of a school with a standard not lower than 
the average Eighth Grade course of study of Florida, or 
must have taught a public school for not less than six 
months. 

Reg". 7. Number and Length of Recitations. — The num- 
ber of daily recitations by the teacher in a Teacher- 
Training Department shall not be less than six, nor ex- 
ceed eight, per day, and all such recitations shall be 
lorty-five (45) minute periods ; Provided, That some reci- 
tations may be shorter than forty-five minutes and others 
as long as sixty (60) minutes, but the average shall not 
be less than forty-five (45) minute periods. One recita- 
tion daily of not less than forty-five (45) minutes shall 
be devoted to Pedagogy and Methods of Teaching. 

Reg. 8. Length of School Term. — The term of every 
school establishing a Teacher-Training Department shall 
not be less than one hundred and sixty (160) daj's, or 
eight (8) months, of actual teaching in such department. 



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Reg. 9. Schools Eligible for Such Department. — A 

Teacher-Training Department shall not be established in 
any school unless that school is recognized as a High 
School hy the State Board of Education, and meets the 
requirements of a High School as prescribed by the regu- 
lations of said State Board of Education ; Provided, That 
any county not having had a sufficient number of high 
school pupils in any one school as to have hitherto ob- 
tained recognition as a High School, the State Board of 
Education may, however, establish a Teacher-Training 
Department in such county with no present recognized 
High School, but which, by the close of the school year 
1916-1917 shall have such recognized High School. 

Reg. 10. Course of Study.— All- Teacher-Training De- 
partments shall be conducted in accordance with an ad- 
visor}^ Course of Studj' submitted by the State Board of 
Education, until such Course shall be perfected and made 
mandatory in all Teacher-Training Departments of tlit 
State. 



CERTIFICATE BOOKS. 

555. Temporary Certificate. 

556. Courtesy Temporary' Certificate. 

557. Third Grade Certificate. 

558. Second Grade Certificate. 

559. First Grade Certificate. 

560. Primary Certificate. 

561. Special Certificate. 

562. State Certificate. 

563. Graduate State Certificate. (Chap. 7373.) 

564. Graduate State Certificate. (Chap. 7372.) 

565. Graduate Special Certificate. (Chap. 7372.) 

566. Graduate First Grade Certificate. (Chap. 7372.) 

567. Graduate Primary Certificate. (Chap. 7372.) 

568. Life Primary Certificate. 

569; Life First Grade Certificate.— 20 Year Plan. 

570. Life First Grade Certificate.— 2 Certificate Plan. 

571. Life First Grade Certificate — Extension Plan. 

572. Life State Certificate. 

573. Life Graduate State Certificate. (Chap. 7373.) 

574. Life Graduate State Certificate. (Chap. 7372.) 



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575. Life Graduate First Grade Certificate. (Chap. 7372.) 

576. Life Graduate Primary Certificate. (Chap. 7372.) 

577. Extension Certificate, University of Florida. 

578. Extension Certificate, Fla. State College for Women. 

579. Extension Certificate, Fla. Agri. & Mech. College. 



COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE BLANKS. 

(Prescribed by State Superintendent ; Paid for by 
County Boards.) 

1. Permit for Parent or Guardian to Teach. 

2. Revocation of Permit for Parent or Guardian to 

Teach. 

3. Exemption from School Attendance. 

4. Teacher's Report of Non-Attendance to Attendance 

Officer. 

5. Notice of Non-Attendance to Parent or Guardian. 

6. List of Children Required to Attend School. 

7. Census for Compulsory School Attendance. 

8. Attendance Officer's Record Book. 



Forms can be ordered by Number, or Title; better by both. 
COPY OF FORMS. 

It has been the practice heretofore to print copies of 
the foregoing forms in the Compilation of the School 
Laws, but it is now deemed best to leave out most of 
these forms, both to save expense and because it is im- 
possible to print these forms on a page the size of this 
and to give an intelligent conception of the form itself. 

The forms of the Third Grade Certificate and the "Con- 
tract With Teacher" are the only ones printed in this 
Compilation. 

There are twenty-five separate and distinct forms of 
teachers' certificates. All are issued with stubs, contain- 
ing a brief biographical sketch of the holder, and all the 
certificates, except the Temporary, have recorded both on 
the stub and in the certificate the specific branches the 



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holder is authorized, to teach, with his rating on each 
branch given in figures on a basis of 100 for perfect. 

The following Third Grade Certificate form conveys a 
very correct idea of each of the 25 different certificates, 
varying principally in the branches and grades recorded 
both on the stub and the certificate. 

Form 514. 

CONTRACT WITH TEACHER. 

This Contract, made on this day of , 192 

at , by and between : 

Teacher, and the Board of Public Instruction for the 
County of , State of Florida, Witnesseth : 

That the said agrees to teach the 

Public School No , at , or such other 

Public School as the Board may elect, commencing on the 

day of , 192 , for the term of 

months, and to perform well and faithfully the duties of 
Teacher, according to the Laws of the State and the Reg- 
ulations of the Department of Public Instruction of Flor- 
ida, and the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Public 
Instruction of County. 

The said Board of Public Instruction of 

County, for and in consideration of the services being 

rendered, agrees to pay the said the 

sum of Dollars per school month, and 

to give such further aid as the law requires. 

Provided, The Board may raise the salary or lengthen 
the term specified in this Contract, or if the average at- 
tendance of such school for any month shall fall below 

per cent, of the largest enrollment during the year;, 

or if said Teacher fails to comply with the provisions of 
the Contract, then the Board may lessen the salary, 
shorten the time specified herein, or annul this Contract 
altogether. 

Signed , Teacher. 



County Superintendent and Secretary — By order of the 
Board of Public Instruction. 
Witness : 



N. B. — The original must be filed in the office of the County 
Superintendent, who may give any teacher a duplicate, if de- 
manded. 



lU 

Form 557. 

TEACHER'S THIRD GRADE CERTIFICATE. 

IMo Valid for 1 Year. 

STATE OF FLORIDA. 

(Seal of State.) 

Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

Whereas, , having presented 

endorsement of Good Moral Character and having passed 
satisfactory examination on the subjects prescribed and 
made the Grades required by Section 9, Chapter 7372, 
Laws of Florida, as reported by the State Board of Ex- 
aminers ; 

Therefore, by authority vested in me by Section 21 of 

the above Act, I do hereby issue to this Third 

Grade Certificate, which authorizes to teach in 

any of the Public Schools of this State for One Year, the 
subjects, and only the subjects, recorded herein and made 
a part of this Certificate. This Certificate void one year 
after date below. 

Witness my hand and the Seal of the State Board of 
Education, this the day of , 19 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

Grades Made on Examination — Scale of 100. 

Orthography % 

Reading % 

Arithmetic % 

English Grammar % 

Composition % 

Geography - % 

United States History % 

Physiology % 

Theory and Practice % 

General Average 

Grades required : Average 70 ; no grade below 50. 



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STUB DATA THIRD GEADE CERTIFICATE. 

No Issued , 19 

To 

Sex Race Age Yrs. 

Date of birth , A. D. 1 

Where born , State of 

Home P. Present P. , Fla. 

School and State where prhicipally educated : 

, (State) : 

Taug'ht m life months ; Taught in Florida months. 

Name of last two schools taught, M^nte after each (iit 

figures) months taught there 

Grade of last certificate :...Grade. 

Date of same , 191 Issued in County. 

By whom Graduate of 

Degrees held 

(Grades made on Examination — Same as body of Cer- 
tificate.) 



LIST AND NUMBER OF FORMS PRESCRIBED AND 

USED IN THE EDUCATIONAL 

DEPARTMENT. 

No. 

501. Organization Board of Public Instruction. 

502. Recommendation of School Supervisor. 

503. Appointment of School Supervisor. 

504. Acceptance of School Supervisor. 

505. Notice of Election of School Trustees. 

506. Commission of School Trustee. 

507. Acceptance of School Trustee. 

508. Itemized Estimate of School Trustees. 

509. Itemized Estimate Board of Public Instruction. 

510. Financial Statement Board of Pul)lic Instruction. 

511. Notice Special Meeting Board of Public Instruction. 

512. Notice of One-Mill Tax Apportionment. 

513. Notice of Interest Apportionment. 

514. Contract with Teacher. 

10 — S. I.aws 



146 

515. Teacher's Monthly Report. 

516. Teacher's Final Report. 

517. Teacher's Monthly Report, Home Economics Depart- 

ment. 

518. Teacher's Monthly Report, Teacher-Training Depart- 

ment. 

519. Salary Requisition for Teacher-Training Department. 

520. Monthly Report of Teachers' Summer Schools. 

521. Salary Requisition for Summer School Teacher. 

522. List of Teachers Endorsed for Extension Certificates. 

523. Weekly Report of Rural School Inspector. 

524. Salary Requisition for Rural School Inspector. 

525. Traveling Expense Requisition for Rural School In- 

spector. 

526. Weekly Report of State Board of Examiners. 

527. Salary Requisition for State Board of Examiners. 

528. Traveling Expense Requisition for State Board of 

Examiners. 

529. List of Appointments of State Board of Examiners. 

530. Character Certificate of Examinee. 

531. Notice to Examinees of Grades Made. 

532. Notice to Primary Examinees of Grades Made. 

533. Stub Data for Primary Certificate. 

534. Stub Data for Third, Second, First, and Special Cer- 

tificates. 

535. Stub Data for State Certificate. 

536. Stub Data for Graduate State Certificate. (Chap. 

7373.) 

537. Application for Temporary Certificate. 

538. Application for Courtesy Temporary Certificate. 

539. Application for Examination for Primary Certificate. 

540. Application for Certificate on Diploma. (Chap. 7372.) 

541. Application for Life Primary Certificate. 

542. Application for Life First Grade Certificate — 20 Year 

Plan. 

543. Application for Life First Grade Certificate — 2 Cer- 

tificate Plan. 

544. Application for Life First Grade Certificate — Exten- 

sion Plan. 

545. Application for Life State Certificate. 

546. Application for Life Graduate State Certificate. 

(Chap. 7373.) 

547. Application for Life Graduate State Certificate. 

(Chap. 7372.) 



147 

548. Report of Graduate of Florida College, Collegiate 

Department. 

549. Report of Graduate of Florida College, Normal De- 

partment. 

550. Report of High School for Standardization. 

551. Annual Report of County Superintendent. 

552. Teacher's Daily Register for 60 Pupils. 

553. Teacher's Daily Register for 100 Pupils. 

554. Teacher's Dailj^ Register for 200 Pupils. 



INDEX 



Sec. 


Pgf. 


288 


101 


291 


102 


154 


54 


155 


54 


155 


54 



A 

ABSENCE— t'«i- 

Of pupil -.■ 

Penalty for illegal absence - 2 

ABSENCE— 

Of teacher, temporarily 

When more than three days 

How filled ; substitute - 

ACCOUNTS— 

Audited and paid by county boards 7 53 23 

AGE— 

For compulsory attendance 296 104 

AGRICULTURE AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT— 

Boards to require examination in 89 34 

Penalty for failure to comply 90 34 

Required to be taught 88 34 

Power of County Boards to establish depart- 
ments of and employ agents 99 36 

AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE 
FOR NEGROES— 

Normal school for colored teachers 

Name of colored normal changed 

ALCOHOLICS AND NARCOTICS— 

Evils to be taught 

Failure to instruct in evils of 

Instruction required as to evils 

ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNTY SUPERINTEN- 
DENT— 

When required to report l 

Penalty for failure to report 

APPARATUS— 

County Board to provide 5 

County Superintendent to inspect 2 

Penalty for defacing 

APPEALS— 

State Supt. to decide upon or refer 6 

State Board to entertain and decide 3 



324 


113 


325 


114 


91 


35 


94 


35 


92 


35 


106 


39 


107 


40 


53 


23 


105 


38 


300 


106 


28 


15 


33 


17 



150 

Par. Sec. Pge. 
APPOINTEES— 

To notify State Supt. of acceptance 1 

Supervisors appointed by County Board 3 

APPORTIONMENT— 

Of one mill tax 

Of interest on State school fund 

By State Supt 4 

When made on discretionary basis 5 

Form of notice to County Supt. Forms 512, 513 
APPROPRIATIONS— 

For carrying out Act of Congress 

For regulations governing county finances 

For teaching of alcoholics and narcotics 

For extension work 

For revising course of study 

For scholarships 

For school book sub-commission 

For State Board of Examiners 

For Summer Schools 

For University of Florida 

ARBITRATIONS— 

Who to prescribe manner of conducting 3 

ARBOR DAY. See Regulation 12 

ASSESSMENT— 

Certain millage, Tax Assessors to assess 13 

Special tax school districts 

Bond taxes how assessed and collected 

Comptroller to assess millage, certain property, 

special tax school districts 182 62 

ASSESSORS— 

To furnish County Boards amount assessed on 

special tax school districts 183 63 

ATTENDANCE— 

At part time schools 

Of youth in another county 

Of youth in another State 

Of non-resident pupils at district schools 

Of children whose mothers receive pensions.... 

For holidays, how reported 

Restricted to own district. See Reg. 16 

ATTENDANCE, COMPULSORY SCHOOL— 

Accurate record to be kept and reported weekly 

Attendance officers; removal 

Blanks 

Duties of Attendance Officers 1-6 



20 


12 


53 


23 


7 


6 


7 


6 


28 


15 


28 


15 




145 


371 


128 


259 


92 


96 


36 


355 


122 


166 


57 


104 


38 


237 


83 


140 


49 


332 


115 


315 


110 


33 


17 




131 


53 


24 


210 


72 


210 


72 



72 


31 


11 


11 


12 


11 


187 


64 


280 


98 


157 


55 




132 


289 


101 


290 


101 




142 


291 


102 



I 

151 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

Fine for County Superintendents 293 104 

Four days' absence excusable 288 101 

Period of compulsory attendance 296 104 

Publication of act 295 104 

State Superintendent to prescribe forms 294 104 

When patrons exempt; correctional schools 292 104 

When private instruction acceptable 287 101 

Whole act not invalidated 297 105 

Who must send children to school 286 99 

Exemptions 1-6 286 100 

B 

BALLOT— 

Bond election, special tax district 200 68 

Special tax districts, to establish 188 64 

BLANKS— 

Preparation, printing and distribution 1 28 15 

Use of mandatory. See Reg. 3 129 

Forms. See Pages 145 to 147 

BOARD OF CONTROL— 

Appointment, qualifications, term of office, etc.. 342 117 
Attorney-General to represent in condemnation 

proceedings 350 121 

Authorized to provide examinations for High 

Schools 348 120 

Disbursements for institutions, etc 346 119 

Empowered to exercise right of eminent do- 
main - 349 121 

Incorporated; powers, etc 347 120 

In re Agricultural and Home Economics Ex- 
tension work 125 

In re Agricultural Experiment Stations 123 

In re Extension Division of State Institutions.. 121 
Organization of first board; chairman; actual 

expenses, etc 343 118 

Powers and duties of 345 118 

Subject to supervision of State Board of Edu- 
cation 344 118 

To include in budget amount necessary for 

Summer Schools 334 115 

BOARD OF EXAMINERS. STATE— 

Created :. *. 134 48 

Duty of 135 48 

Examiners; term of office; salary; statements 139 49 



152 

Vav. 
BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, COUNTY— 

Membership of 

Must be commissioned. Reg. 4 

Must conform to regulations State Dept 

Not to vote on own compensation , 

Majority a quorum 

Members must qualify 2 

Board to be a corporation 

Organization, first duty 

To hold title to school property 

Compensation of. Sections 45 to 

Secretary of 

Treasurer of 

Duties of 1-15 

To locate and maintain schools 4 

To observe three mile limit 6 

To appoint supervisors 3 

General discretionary powers 5 

To employ and contract with teacheres 6 

To audit and pay accounts 7 

To keep accurate accounts 8 

To report to State Superintendent 8 

To file financial statement with Clerk of Court 9 

To publish financial statement monthly 

To require certain studies to be taught 10 

To perform all necessary acts ■. 11 

To hold regular and special meetings 12 

To prepare annual budget and fix millage 13 

To select candidates for State colleges 14 53 25 

To examine books of Tax Collector -.- 15 53 25 

Authorized to borrow money 54 25 

How interest payments made 

Must furnish free text books in certain cases...- 
May establish Home Economics Department.... 
May establish Department of Agriculture, Can- 
ning Clubs, etc 

Empowered to employ county agents 

Authorized to acquire land , 

Not to contract with members 

School Board Districts 

Vacancies, how filled 

Te call election for abolishing or changing 

special tax districts * 

To publish notice of election 

To appoint inspectors , 



16 


12 




129 


17 


12 


18 


12 


19 


12 


20 


13 


42 


20 


43 


20 


44 


20 


48 


21 


51 


22 


52 


22 


53 


22 


53 


23 


53 


23 


53 


23 


53 


23 


53 


23 


53 


23 


53 


23 


53 


23 


53 


24 


149 


88 


53 


24 


53 


24 


53 


24 


53 


24 



56 


%^ 


240 


84 


97 


36 


98 


36 


99 


36 


100 


37 


66 


29 


67 


29 


68 


30 


217 


75 


173 


60 


173 


60 



15a . 

Par. 

1o canvass returns of election ...-. 

To demand list of voters from Supervisor of 
Registration 

To fill vacancies of Trustees 

To remove Trustees 

To receive itemized statement of Trustees 

To issue warrants on special tax funds 

To approve debts of Trustees 

To provide fire escapes 

To examine teachers' reports, issue warrants.. 

Duty to maintain part time schools 

May invest in county warrants 

May require security of bidders for district 
bonds 

To advertise and award contracts for building.. 

To contract for building and improvemeat 

To determine amount of district bonds 

To disburse proceeds from sale of bonds 

To dispose of surplus of bond issue 

To draw checks, etc 2 

To give notice for bids district bonds 

To give notice of district bond election 

To hold and expend proceeds from sales dis- 
trict bonds .' - 1 

To keep set of books 

To make sworn statements of finances 

To prepare report of district bonds 

To publish resolution on district bonds 

When Board may change boundaries of dis- 
tricts 172 59 

For other duties see Regulations, Pages 120 to 
132. 
BONDS— 

Bond of County Superintendent 

Bonds required by county officers 

Required of bidders for special tax school dis- 
trict bonds 

Members of School Board to give bond 

County Commissioners to approve bond 

Who liable for loss where no bond given 

BONDS, SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICTS— 

Constitution for 

How issued Pages C7 to 

Certain petition to Board required 

Amount of, determined; rate of interest 



Sec. 


Pg«. 


174 


60 


175 


60 


178 


61 


178 


61 


181 


62 


185 


63 


186 


64 


78 


32 


6 


130 


69 


30 


65 


29 


204 


69 


207 


71 


208 


72 


197 


67 


209 


72 


214 


75 


206 


71 


203 


69 


199 


68 


206 


70 


247 


87 


253 


89 


212 


74 


198 


68 



25 


14 


24 


14 


204 


69 


26 


14 


26 


14 


20 


13 


17 


7 




75 


196 


67 


197 


67 



154 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

Publication of resolution 198 68 

Board to order election 199 68 

Qualification of electors 199 68 

How election conducted, ballot, etc 200 68 

Bonds issued, when 201 69 

If adverse vote, no election within a year 202 69 

Board to advertise for bids 203 69 

Bidders to give security 204 69 

Form and denomination of bonds 205 70 

Proceeds from sale of, how expended 1-2 206 70 

Proceeds deposited in banks; interest 2 206 70 

Banks must furnish bonds and render monthly 

statements 2 206 70 

Advertising and awarding contracts for bldg.... 207 71 

Contractor's bond 208 72 

Bonds for other purposes 209 72 

Tax to create sinking fund 210 72 

How bond taxes assessed and collected 210 72 

Tax money to be turned over to depositories.... 210 72 

Sinking funds may be invested in other bonds.. 211 73 

Attorney General to pass on validity 211 73 

Annual reports to be published 212 74 

Additional bond issue 213 74 

Disposition of surplus 214 75 

Validation of bonds 215 75 

Liable for payment of, when consolidated 193 66 

BOOK COMMISSION— 

Created; duties 218 75 

To consider bids of publishers 224 79 

To secure performance of contracts 233 82 

(See Sub-Commission.) 

BORROWED MONEY— 

Procedure for County Boards 54 25 

Limit as to amount borrowed 54 25 

Interest payments to be made by warrant 56 26 

Outstanding indebtedness validated 57 26 

BUDGET— 

School Board to prepare 13 53 24 

BUILDINGS— 

(See school houses.) 

e 

CENSUS— 

Attendance officers to take 1 291 102 



146 


51 


148 


52 


147 


51 


150 


53 


149 


52 



155 

Par. Sec. Pge. 
CERTIFICATE BOOKS— 

List of . 141 

CERTIFICATE OF CHARACTER— 

For examinee for teacher's certificate 114 42 

Certificates to graduates of state 
colleges— 

Awarded Graduate State certificates; proviso... 

College to make annual report of graduates 

Graduates of certain other colleges awarded, 
etc 

Life Graduate State certificates 

State Supt. to issue graduate State certificates.. 
CERTIFICATION AND EXAMINATION OF 
TEACHERS— 

Applicants to present endorsements; fees 114 42 

Certificates issued on oral and written exam- 
ination 

Certificates may be revoked 

Certificates must cover subjects taught 

Courtesy certificate (B) 

Disposition of fees 

Divulging questions to be used in examinations 

Duty of State Board of Examiners 

Examinations to be practical, etc.; places and 
dates, etc 

Examiners; term of office; salary; statements.. 

First grade certificate 

Grades of certificates , 

Graduates of standard colleges to receive cer- 
tain certificates (A) 

Life first grade certificate (20 years plan) 

Life first grade certificates (48 months plan).... 

Life first grade certificate (extension plan) 

Life primary certificates 

Life State certificate 

Penalty for applicant guilty of obtaining ques- 
tion sheet 

Penalty for divulging questions, etc 

Persons permitted to teach in public schools; 
proviso 

Primary certificate 

Qualifications of principals 

Reciprocation necessary 

Second grade certificate 

Special certificates 



112 


41 


138 


49 


113 


42 


127 


46 


131 


47 


141 


50 


135 


48 


137 


48 


139 


49 


119 


43 


111 


41 


127 


45 


123 


44 


124 


44 


126 


45 


122 


44 


125 


44 


144 


50 


142 


50 


110 


41 


116 


42 


133 


48 


132 


47 


118 


43 


120 


43 



Sec. 


r.if. 


134 


48 


121 


• 43 


136 


4S 



140 


49 


128 


46 


130 


47 


115 


42 


117 


43 


143 


50 


145 


50 



141 


50 


143 


50 


145 


50 


144 


50 



Par. 

State Board of Examiners : 

State certificate - 

State Superintendent to issue certificates 

State Superintendent to issue substitute cer- 
tificates 129 47 

State Treasurer to Iveep fees separate; dis- 
bursements, etc 

Substitute certificate 

Substitute certificate must equal ,etc 

Temporarj- certificates 

Third grade certificate 

Unlawful for applicant to obtain question 
sheets 

Unlawful use of examination questions 

CHARACTER ENDORSEMENT— 

Applicant for examination to present 114 

CHEATING IN EXAMINATION— 

Unlawful to divulge questions 

Questions obtained unlawfully 

Unlawful use of questions 

Penalties Sees. 142 and 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND AGRICULTURE— 

To be taught 

CLASSIFICATION OF GRADES— (See Grades.) 
CLERK OP CIRCUIT COURT— 

Bond of school officers to be filed with 2 

Organization of Board to be recorded by 

School Board districts, creation of filed with... 
COLLECTORS, TAX— 

Duty of 

To pay school moneys over to depositories 

COLLEGES— (See State Institutions.) 
COMMISSION OF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS— 

Regulation State Board of Education No. 4 129 

COMMISSION— (See Sub-Commission.) 
COMMISSIONERS, COUNTY— 

Duty of, regarding district assessments 

May authorize granting scholarships 

To levy tax for district bonds 

COMPENSATION— (See Salaries.) 
COMPTROLLER— 

Itemized estimate of Trustees to be filed with.. 

To assess and collect certain taxes 

To approve amount and validity of bonds of 

depositories 244 86 



20 


12 


43 


20 


67 


29 


S 


10 


245 


86 



182 


62 


101 


37 


210 


72 


181 


62 


182 


62 



157 

I'ar. Sec. Pgc. 
COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE LAW— 

Applicable to part time schools 73 31 

COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE— 

Accurate record to be kept and reported weekly 

Attendance Officers; removal 

Blanks 

Duties of Attendance Officers 1-6 

Fine for County Superintendents 

Four days' absence excusable 

Period of compulsory attendance 

Publication of Act 

State Superintendent to prescribe forms 

When patrons exempt; correctional schools 

When private instruction acceptable; verify.... 

Whole act not invalidated 

Who must send children to school 

Exemptions 1-6 

CONDUCT OP PUPILS— 

What teacher to require 2 

Teacher to enforce needful regulations 4 

CONSOLIDATION OF SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL 
DISTRICTS— 

Districts may 'consolidate 

Existing laws apply 

Existing laws not repealed 

Liabilities and resources merged 

Procedure for 1-3 

Taxes levied not impaired 

Consolidation, when effective 

CONSTITUTION— " 

Article IV. — State Supt. of Public Instruction: 

An administrative officei* 

Duties and powers... 

How chosen 

To make reports ; 

Article XII. — Education: 

County Levy 

County school fund 

District bonds and tax; limited to live mills 

District school tax 

Expenditure of , 

Normal schools 

Pay of school officers 

Races, separated _ 

School districts ". 



289 


101 


290 


101 




142 


291 


102 


293 


104 


288 


101 


296 


104 


295 


104 


294 


104 


292 


104 


287 


101 


297 


105 


286 


99 


286 


100 


151 


53 


151 


53 


189 


65 


191^ 


M 


195 


67 


193 


66 


190 


65 


194 


66 


192 


66 


20 


8 


25 


8 


20 


8 


27 


8 


8 


6 


9 


6 


17 


7 


10 


6 


11 


6 


14 


7 


15 


7 


12 


7 


10 


6 



158 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

State Board of Education; powers 3 5 

State one mill tax 6 6 

Apportionment of 7 6 

Forbidden sectarian schools 13 7 

Not divertible 13 7 

Principal inviolate 5 5 

contract- 
To be made with teachers Reg. 26 133 

Boards to advertise and award contracts 207 71 

To contract for building and improvement 208 72 

Not to contract with members 66 29 

Board not to contract for term beyond life of 

certificate Reg. 17 132 

COUNTY DEPOSITORIES— 

Accounts subject to examination by persons 

authorized 250 88 

Banks to be county depositories 243 85 

County Boards to keep set of books; overdraw- 
ing prohibited '■ 247 87 

County funds to be paid into; triplicate re- 
ceipts, etc 245 86 

County Treasurer abolished 242 85 

Depositories to make reports; Boards to pub- 
lish monthly statements; Comptroller au- 
thorized to require additional security 249 88 

Designation of depositories; when made 251 89 

How banks may qualify as; deposits to be 

divided equitably 244 86 

How funds drawn from 248 87 

COUNTY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS— 

Comptroller to furnish forms for financial 

statements 252 89 

Copies of financial statements to be preserved.. 254 90 
Duty of county officers to make sworn state- 
ments, etc. 253 89 

Examination of reports; Comptroller may em- 
ploy examiner 256 90 

Failure of county officers to swear to or file 

financial statements 258 91 

Public inspection of reports; publication; ex- 
penses 255 90 

Removal of officers for failure to make reports 257 91 

COUNTY JUDGE— 

Fees of 299 105 



159 

Par. Sec. Pge. 
COUNTY LEVY— 

Levy (Constitution for) 8 6 

COUNTY LINE PUPILS— 

Attendance of 11 11 

COUNTY OFFICERS— 

Duty of to make sworn statements, etc 253 8? 

Failure of to swear to or file financial state- 
ments 258 91 

Failure of to make reports 307 107 

May be required to make reports to auditor 306 107 

May be suspended for refusing to submit books 305 107 

Removal of for failure to make financial report 257 91 

To give bond 24 14 

COUNTY SCHOOL FUND— 

Sources of 9 6 

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS— 

Duties of 1-11 105 38 

Failure to swear to or file financial statements 258 91 
Fine in re violation of compulsory school at- 
tendance act 293 104 

May be required to make reports to aduitor 306 107 

May be suspended for refusing to submit books 305 107 

Pay of 50 22 

Penalty for failure to make annual report, etc. 107 40 
Regulations prescribed for by State Board of 

Education 132 

Removal for failure to make financial reports.. 257 91 

Salaries of 49 21 

To give bond 25 14 

To make annual report to State Superintendent 106 39 

To preserve copy of financial statements 258 91 

To receive bids for special tax school district 

bonds 203 69 

COURSE OF STUDY 165 56 

D 

DAYS— 

Arbor Day Reg. 12 131 

Mother's Day 152 54 

Vacation and holidays 6 10 

School day 5 iq 

DEFACEMENT OF BUILDINGS— 

Teacher to protect school property 3 151 53 

Penalty for certain defacement 300 106 



160 

I'ai-. Sec. I'uc. 
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— 

State Superintendent - 27-31 14-16 

State Board of Education 32-41 16-20 

Officers of -— 32 1C 

DEPOSITORIES, COUNTY— 

Accounts subject to examination 250 H8 

Banks to be county depositories 243 8C 

County Boards to keep seL of books; over- 
drawing prohibited 247 87 

County funds to be paid into; triplicate re- 
ceipts, etc 245 86 

County Treasurer abolished 242 85 

Depositories to make reports; Boards to pub- 
lish monthly statements; Comptroller au- 
thorized to require additional se<iurity 249 88 

Designation of depositories; when made 251 89 

How banks may qualify; deposits to be divided 244 ' 86 

How funds drawn from 248 87 

DISTRICTS— 

Of County School Board 67 29 

DISTRICTS, SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL— 

Application of school funds 180 62 

Board to give notice of election, etc 173 60 

Boundaries of districts 171 58 

Canvass of election returns 174 60 

Consolidation, when effective 192 66 

District abolished or changed by majority vote.. 217 75 
District schools under control of Board and 

Superintendent 179 61 

Duty of County Board 184 63 

Duty of County Commissioners 182 62 

Duty of Trustees as to money to be raised 181 62 

Election - 175 60 

Election bi-ennially 177 60 

Existing laws apply to election for consolida- 
tion ...-- 191 66 

Existing law not repealed in consolidation 195 67 

Form of ballot 188 64 

Liabilities and resources merged in consolida- 
tion 193 66 

May be abolished or changed; proviso 216 75 

May consolidate 189 65 

Non-resident children may attend district 

schools 187 64 

Petition for election, etc 170 58 



161 

Par. Sec. Pgo. 

Procedure for consolidation ^'^ ^^^ ^^ 

Special tax fund ^^^ ^^ 

Supervisor superseded by Trustees 178 61 

Tax Assessor to furnish amount assessed, etc... 183 63 

Taxes levied not impaired by consolidation 194 66 

Trustees to be a corporation 186 64 

When Board may change boundaries 1'72 59 

Who entitled to vote; expenses 1'76 60 

DISTRICT SCHOOL FUNDS— 

Constitution for 

Forfeiture of funds by district 13 H 

DISTRICT SCHOOL TAX— 

Constitution for ^^ ^ 

Where and for what purpose expended H 6 

Procedure to levy - 1'^*^ ^^ 

Election bi-ennially to fix millage 177 60 

Commissioners to notify Assessor of millage 

to assess ^°-' 

DUTIES OF STATE SUPERINTENDENT— 

(See State Supt.) 
DUTIES OF TEACHERS— 

To require advancement in studies and develop 

in character 1 1^1 ^^ 

To require certain conduct and habits 2 151 53 

To prevent injury to property 3 151 53 

To prevent improper conduct of pupils 4 151 53 

To suspend pupils for certain offenses 5 151 53 

To hold examinations twice yearly 6 151 54 

To deliver, etc., to Supervisor 7 151 54 

Primary duties of Reg. 26 133 

Corporal punishment Reg. 27 133 

DUTY OF COUNTY DEPOSITORY— 

Various duties. See Sections 244, 245, 246 
and 249. 
DUTY OF COLLECTOR— 

To collect amounts assessed S 10 

DUTY OF BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— 
(See Board of Public Instruction.) 

E 

EDUCATION, HIGHER— 

State Board of Education to foster 5 17 

(See State Institutions.) 
EDUCATION. VOCATIONAL 125 

11 — S. Laws 



162 

Par. Sec. Pge. 
ELECTION, SPECIAL TAX DISTRICTS— 

Petition for special tax district 170 58 

Matters to be voted on 170 58 

Election of Trustees 170 58 

How to be held 175 60 

Canvass of returns 174 60 

Who entitled to vote 176 60 

Election bi-ennially 177 60 

Bond election 200 68 

ELIGIBILITY OF SCHOOL OFFICE— 

To possess certain qualifications Reg. 1 129 

EXAMINATION AND CERTIFICATION OF 
TEACHERS— 

Applicants to present endorsenients; fees 114 42 

Certificates issued on oral and written exam- 
ination - 112 41 

Certificates may be revoked 138 49 

Certificates must cover subjects taught 113 42 

Courtesy certificate (B) 127 46 

iJisposition of fees 131 47 

Divulging questions to be used in examinations 141 50 

Duty of State Board of Examiners 135 48 

Examinations to be practical, etc.; places and 

dates, etc 137 48 

Examiners; term of office; salary; statements 139 49 

First Grade Certificate 119 43 

Grades of certificates Ill 41 

Graduates of standard colleges to receive cer- 
tain certificates (A) 127 45 

Life First Grade Certificate (20 years plan) 123 44 

Life First Grade Certificate (48 months plan).. 124 44 

Life First Grade Certificate (extension plan).... 126 45 

Life Primary Certificate 122 44 

Life State Certificate 125 44 

Penalty for applicant guilty of obtaining ques- 
tion sheets 144 50 

Penalty for divulging questions, etc 142 50 

Persons permitted to teach in public schools; 

proviso 110 41 

Primary Certificate 116 42 

Qualifications of principals 133 45 

Reciprocation necessary 132 47 

Second Grade Certificate 118 43 

Special Certificates 120 43 

State Board of Examiners 134 48 



163 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

State Certificate 121 43 

State Superintendent to issue certificates 136 48 

State Superintendent to issue substitute cer- 
tificates 129 47 

State Treasurer to keep fees separate; dis- 
bursements, etc 140 49 

Substitute Certificate 128 46 

Substitute Certificate must equal, etc —. 130 47 

Temporary Certificates 115 42 

Third Grade Certificate 117 43 

Unlawful for applicant to obtain question 

sheets 143 50 

Unlawful use of examination questions 145 50 

EXAMINATION OF PUPILS— 

Two public examinations yearly .' 2 151 54 

EXAMINATIONS BY STATE BOARD OP 
EXAMINERS— 

Penalty for applicant obtaining question sheets 144 50 

Penalty for divulging questions, etc 142 50 

Unlawful for applicant to obtain question 

sheets 143 50 

Examination to be practical, etc.; places and 

dates, etc 137 48 

EXAMINERS, STATE BOARD OF— 

(See Board of.) 
EXCHANGE PRICE OF BOOKS— 

Fifty per cent allowance on old books 229 81 

EXEMPTIONS FROM COMPULSORY ATTEND- 
ANCE LAW— 

See Paragraphs 1-6, Sec. 28G, Page 100. 
EXTENSION DIVISION OF STATE INSTITU- 
TIONS 121 

F 

FAVORITISM— 

Board to avoid in employing teachers...: 10 130 

FEE— 

For examination 114 42 

Disposition of 131 47 

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS— (See County.) 

FINES— 

For County Superintendent..... 293 104 

Of parents for violation- of Comp. Att. Law 2 291 102 



78 


32 


80 


32 


82 


33 


83 


33 


77 


32 


81 


33 


79 


32. 


119 


43 


308 


107 


309 


107 


325 


114 


324 


113 



1(54 

FIRE ESCAPES AND FIRE DRILLS— Par. Sec. Pge. 

Board of Public Instruction to designate num- 
ber, etc 

Doors of school bouses to swing outward 

Fire drills in public schools 

Penalty for failure to comply with Sees. 468, 
470, 471 

School buildings to be provided with 

Time for compliance with regulation 

To be kept in perfect order 

first grade certificate 

flag- 
To be displayed on houses 

To be provided 

FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL 
COLLEGE FOR NEGROES— 

Name of Colored Normal changed 

Normal School for Colored Teachers.. 

FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND THE 
BLIND— 

Admission 

Board of Control to employ teachers, etc 

Board of Control to provide necessaries 

Managed by Board of Control 

Property of vested in State Board of Education 

Those who have the means to pay 

Transportation 

Who to be educated and maintained 

FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN— 

Admission of students 

Created 

Objects; only female white students admitted; 

normal department 

Property set apart for 

FORFEITURE OF SCHOOL FUND— 

By county or district 

By school 

FORMS— 

Contract with teacher 

Copy of forms 

List ^^<i number of those prescribed and used, 
etc. 

Third Grade Certificate .• 



337 


116 


341 


117 


340 


117 


335 


116 


235 


116 


339 


117 


338 


116 


336 


116 


311 


108 


310 


108 


322 


112 


323 


113 


13 


11 


14 


12 




143 




142 




145 




144 



4 


3 


7 


6 


5 


5 


7 


6 


28 


15 


41 


19 


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6 


13 


7 


15 


7 


10 


'e 


13 


7 


180 


62 


185 


63 



165 

FUNDS — Par. Sec. Pge. 

County Superintendent and other officers to 

turn over property and money to successor... 21 13 

FUNDS, STATE SCHOOL— 

Who to manage 4 5 

Sources of 

Interest on, how to be used 

Principal of inviolate 

Basis of apportionment 

Staj^e Supt. to apportion interest 4 

State Treasurer to keep accounts with coun- 
ties 

FUNDS, COUNTY SCHOOL— 

Sources of 

No diversion of 

Pay of school officers from 

FUNDS, DISTRICT— 

Constitutional provisions for 

Not divertible 

Who to apportion 

To be used solely for school purposes 

FUNDS FROM DISTRICT BOND ISSUE— 

(See Bonds.) 
FURNITURE— 

Board to supply 5 53 23 

Penalty for defacing 300 106 

G 

GRADES, RURAL AND HIGH SCHOOLS— 

Appropriation for revising course of study 

Grades of instruction 

Grammar grades 

High School grades 

Intermediate grades 

Number of years of instruction 

Primary grades 

School year 

Uniform course of study 

GRADUATE STATE CERTIFICATES 

GRAMMAR GRADES 

GROUNDS, SCHOOL— 

Site for school, by whom provided 4 

Improvement of 5 

Authority of teacher on 4 



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57 


160 


56 


163 


56 


164 


56 


162 


56 


158 


55 


161 


56 


159 


55 


165 


56 


146 


51 


163 


56 


53 


23 


53 


23 


151 


53 





108 


164 


56 


348 


120 


284 


99 


283 


98 


282 


98 




134 




136 




135 




137 




138 



166 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

H 

HEALTH CERTIFICATES, TEACHERS'.. 

HIGH SCHOOL GRADES 

HIGH SCHOOLS— 

Board of Control authorized to provide exam- 
inations for 

Boards may procure equipment (military) 

County Boards may designate schools to give 

military training 

Course of military instruction in 

Regulations prescribed by State Board of Edu- 
cation 

Intermediate High Schools 

Junior High Schools. 

Senior High Schools 

Suggested regulations 

Teacher-Training Departments in High 

Schools 139 

HOLIDAYS— 

School holidays; how reported 6 10 

HOME ECONOMICS AND HOME DEMONSTRA- 
TION WORK— 

Authorized to be taught ; 97 36 

■ Canning clubs, etc.; qualifications of instruc- 
tors 98 36 

School Boards authorized to acquire land 100 37 

School Boards authorized to employ County 
Agents 99 36 

I 

IMMORALITY— 

Certificate revoked for 138 49 

Suspension of pupil for 5 151 53 

IMPARTIAL PROVISION— 

For botTi races (Constitution) 12 7 

INDEBTEDNESS, OUTSTANDING — 

Of School Board .57 26 

58 27 
INJURY TO SCHOOL BUILDINGS— 

Teacher to prevent 3 151 53 

INSPECTION, MEDICAL, OF SCHOOL 
CHILDREN— 

Cities already having, not affected 267 94 

County medical inspectors; pay for services, 

etc 266 93 



268 


94 


264 


93 


265 


93 


105 


38 


29 


15 


167 


57 


260 


92 


262 


92 


261 


92 



167 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

Expenditures to be certified, etc.; annual re- 
port to Governor 

Of school children, etc 

Rules for, etc 

INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS— 

By County Superintendent 2 

By State Superintendent 

By Rural School Inspectors 

INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER 
INSTITUTIONS— 

Commission appointed by Governor 

Commission to serve without pay 

Duty of Commission 

Interfering with Commission to inspect chari- 
table institutions 263 92 

INSPECTORS, RURAL SCHOOL— 

Appointment and duties of 

Salary of 

INTEREST— 

On Borrowed Money, how paid 

On State School Fund, how apportioned —.. 

On Special Tax District Bonds 

Coupons, negotiable 

Coupons, where payable 

INTEREST AND RIGHTS OF COUNTY— 

Superintendent to guard 9 

INTERMEDIATE GRADES .., 

INTERRUPTING OR DISTURBING SCHOOLS 

ITEMIZED ESTIMATE— 

County Board to prepare 13 

Trustees to prepare 

J 

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL— 

Defined 160 56 

Requirements for Reg. 1 135 

JURY AND MILITARY DUTY— 

When teacher exempt from 153 54 

K 

KINDERGARTENS— 

May be established in counties 

Part of public school 

Qualifications of principals for 



167 


57 


168 


57 


56 


26 


7 


6 


197 


67 


62 


28 


60 


28 


105 


39 


162 


56 


303 


106 


53 


24 


181 


62 



74 


32 


75 


32 


76 


32 



'C. 


I'go. 


33 


16 


34 


17 


53 


23 


27 


15 


2 


129 



L 

LANDS— Tar. 

School lands, management of 1 

Not to be sold on credit 

Improvement of by County Boards 5 

LAW OR LAWS— 

Regulations of State Board have effect of 6 

Regulations County Boards to have force of 

LIABILITY OF OFFICERS— 

Personally liable for loss by neglect 3 20 13 

LIBRARIES— 

Constitutional provision for 

Trustees may purchase 

LICENSE MONEY, HUNTERS— 

To be paid into School Fund 

Reports to be made by County Judge 

LIFE FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATE— 

20 years plan : 

48 months plan 

Extension plan 

LIFE GRADUATE STATE CERTIFICATES 

LIFE PRIMARY CERTIFICATE 

LIFE STATE CERTIFICATE 

LOCATION OF SCHOOLS— 

Made by County Board -.. 2 

Three-mile limit 6 

M 

MAJORITY— 

Of any educational board, a quorum 19 12 

Of Special Tax District to create District 176 60 

MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL 
CHILDREN— 

Cities already having, not affected 267 94 

County Medical Inspectors; pay for services, 

eac 266 93 

Expenditures to be certified, etc.; annual re- 
port to Governor 

Of school children, etc 

Rules for, etc 

MEETINGS— 

Regular meetings of County Boards required ... 12 

Supt. may call special meetings 12 

County Boards required to hold, monthly 



11 


6 


186 


64 


299 


105 


299 


105 


123 


• 44 


124 


44 


126 


45 


150 


53 


122 


44 


125 


44 


53 


22 


53 


23 



268 


94 


264 


93 


265 


93 


53 


24 


53 


24 


5 


130 



1G9 

Par. Sec. Pge. 
MEMBERS OF BOARD PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— 

Number of 

To give bond 

Not to contract with ^ 

Vacancies, how filled 

MILLAGE— 

County School 

Special Tax District 

MILITARY TRAINING AND INSTRUCTION IN 
HIGH SCHOOLS. 

Boards may procure equipment 

County Boards may designate schools 

Course of military instruction 

Students to furnish own uniform 

MONTH 

MONTHLY REPORT 

MOTHER'S DAY * 

MOTHERS' PENSIONS— 

Act to be construed liberally 

Allowance authorized 

Conditions of allowance 1-4 

Female relative 

General duties of officers 

History of each case 

How carried into effect 

How families are to be investigated 

Other persons may be authorized to carry law 

into effect 

> Penalty for fraud 

Require attendance at school 

When allowance shall cease 

Where child may reside 

N 

NOTICE— 

For creation special tax districts 173 60 

Notice of examination 19 132. 

NORMAL SCHOOLS— (See Schools.) 



OFFICERS, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC 
INSTRUCTION— 

Composed of whom 15 12 

Certain officers to qualify and give bond, etc.... 1-3 20 12 



16 


12 


20 


.12 


66 


29 


68 


30 


8 


6 


10 


6 


284 


99 


283 


98 


282 


98 


285 


99 


5 


10 


157 


55 


152 


54 


279 


98 


270 


95 


271 


95 


273 


96 


269 


94 


275 


96 


274 


96 


276 


97 


277 


97 


281 


98 


280 


98 


272 


95 


278 


97 



170 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

No officer to vote on his own compensation 18 x2 

Officer to turn over money and property to 

successor 21 l'' 

P 

PATRONS— 

May recommend Supervisor 3 53 23 

May require schools of higher grade 5 53 23 

Not authorized to employ teachers 6 53 23 

PAY OF COUNTY SCHOOL OFFICERS— 

(See Salaries.) 
PENALTIES— 

For applicant in teachers' examination obtain- 
ing question sheets I44 '50 

For County Official refusing to submit books.. 305 107 

For disturbing schools- 303 106 

For divulging questions to be used in teachers" 

examinations ^^4]^ 5q 

For failure of County Officials to make reports 307 107 

For failure of County Superintendent to make 

annual report to State Superintendent 107 40 

For failure to comply with regulations as to 

fire escapes §3 03 

For failure to comply with regulations as to 

teaching of agriculture and civil government 90 34 

For failure to make financial reports 257 91 

For failure to provide school buildings with 

closets g6 34 

For failure to swear to or file financial state- 

^e^ts 258 91 

For fraud in re mothers' pensions 281 98 

For injury to school houses 300 106 

For insulting teachers in pupils' presence 302 106 

For obscenity marked on school buildings, etc„ 301 106 

For school officers dealing in text books 241 85 

For unlawful use of teachers' examination 

questions ^^45 ^q 

For violation of law to secure fairness, etc., in 

teachers' examinations 304 106 

POLLS— 

Tax Collector to furnish list of 298 105 

PRIMARY CERTIFICATES 116 42 

PRIMARY GRADES kji 55 



171 

PRINCIPALS— '^^'■• 

Qualifications of 

Qualifications of for Kindergartens 

To make weekly report to Attendance Officer.. 
PROPERTY, SCHOOL— 

County Board to acquire and hold i 

To keep record of g 

Special tax districts may own 1 

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— 

Uniform system of 

PUNISHMENT— 

Not to be too severe, etc 4 

PUPILS— 

Four days' absence of, excusable 

Those exempted from school attendance 1-6 

Those exempted from attendance at part time 

schools 

To undergo medical examination 

PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE— 

For educational purposes 



•Sec. 


Pge. 


133 


48 


76 


32 


289 


101 


53 


22 


53 


23 


53 


22 


1 


9 


151 


53 


288 


101 


286 


100 


70 


31 


264 


93 



10 10 



Q 

QUALIFICATIONS— 

Of officers. (See Officers.) 

Of teachers. (See Teachers.) 

Of voters in special tax districts 

Of voters in bond elections.. 

QUESTIONS, TEACHERS' EXAMINATION— 

Not to be divulged 

Penalty for divulging 

Penalty for obtaining question sheets 

Unlawful to obtain question sheets 

Unlawful use of examination questions 
QUORUM— 

A majority to constitute 

R 

RACES— 

Separated 

White children and negro children not to be 

taught in same school 

REAL ESTATE— 

Purchase of, for educational purposes 



176 60 

199 68 

141 50 

142 50 

144 50 

143 50 

145 50 

19 12 



12 7 
22 13 
10 10 



172 



RECORDS— Par. Sec. 

County Board to keep 8 53 

County Superintendent to keep 6 105 

REGISTERS— 

Teachers to use those prescribed.; 26 

REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY STATE 
BOARD OF EDUCATION— 

General regulations and instructions .-. 

Regulations as to County Boards of Public In- 
struction 

Regulations as to County Superintendent of 

Public Instruction 

Regulations as to High Schools 

Intermediate High Schools 

Junior High Schools 

Senior High Schools 

Suggested High School regulations 

Teacher-Training Departments in High Schools 
REMOVAL— 

Of school officers.... 4 33 

REPORTS— 

By State Superintendent 27 

By County Board — 53 

By County Superintendent 106 

By Rural School Inspectors 167 

By Teachers 157 

By Teacher-Training Departments 5 

RURAL SCHOOL INSPECTORS— 

Appointment and duties of 167 

Salary of 168 

s 

SALARIES— 

Of County Boards 45 

In Counties of 37,000, etc 46 

In Counties of between 37,000 and 40,000 47 

In Counties of over 50,000 48 

Of County Medical Examiners 266 

Of County Superintendents 49 

Of Museum Directors at University of Florida 318 

Of Rural School Inspectors 168 

Of School Book Sub-Commission 237 

Of State Board of Examiners 139 



Pge. 

23 

39 

133 

129 

129 

132 
134 
136 
135 
137 
138 
139 

17 



24 
39 
57 
55 

140 



57 



21 
21 
21 
21 
93 
21 
111 
57 
83 
49 



104 


38 


102 


37 


101 


37 


103 


37 


11 


11 


12 


11 



it:] 

SALE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY— Par. Sec. Pge. 

By County Boards 1 53 22 

SANITARY PRECAUTIONS— 

(See Medical Inspection.) 

(See School Closets.) 
SCHOOL AGE— (See Age.) 
SCHOLARSHIPS— 

Appropriation authorized for; term "Board" 
defined 

Awarding of 

Board of County Commissioners may author- 
ize, etc 

Eligibility of applicant 

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE— 

By youth of school in another county 

By youth of another State 

SCHOOL BOARD— (See Board Pub. Inst.) 

SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICTS 67 29 

SCHOOL BOOK COMMISSION— (See Book Com.) 
SCHOOL BOOKS— 

When furnished free : 240 84 

SCHOOL CLOSETS— 

Failure to provide school buildings with 

In rural districts 

School closets; separate compartments for 

each sex 

SCHOOL DAY, MONTH, TERM AND YEAR... .... 

SCHOOL FUNDS— (See Funds.) 
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS— (See Days.) 
SCHOOL HOUSES— 

Authority of teacher in or near 4 

Care of by teacher... 3 

Obscenity on 

Injury to 

SCHOOL LANDS— (See Lands.) 
SCHOOL LAWS— 

Printed and distributed by State Supt 1 28 15 

SCHOOLS— 

High Schools: 

Military training in : gg 

Regulations prescribed for 134 

Inspection of schools 92 

Normal Schools 14 7 

Opening and closing of schools 4 9 



86 


34 


85 


00 


84 


33 


5 


10 



151 


53 


151 


53 


301 


106 


300 


106 



72 


31 


73 


31 


69 


30 


71 


31 


70 


31 


169 


57 


179 


61 




114 


3 


9 


53 


23 


105 


39 



174 

Par. Sec. Pge. 
Part Time: 

Attendance at required 

Compulsory Attendance Law applicable 

Duty to maintain 

Subjects to be taught 

Who may be exempted and when law man- 
datory 

Special Tax District 

Under control of County Board and County 
Superintendent 

Summer Schools 

When schools may begin 

Not to be located nearer than three miles 6 

Superintendent to keep record of 6 

SCHOOL SUPERVISORS— (See Supervisor.) 
SCHOOL TEACHER— (See Teacher.) 
SCHOOL TERM— 

Defined; day, month, term 5 10 

SCHOOL TEXT BOOK LAW— 

Adoptions for eight years 

Adoptions must be used.., 

Bidders to register all agents 

Book Commission created; duties 

Book Commission to secure performance of 

contracts 233 82 

Contractors lo maintain depository and agen- 
cies 232 82 

Dates for completion of adoptions and begin- 
ning of contracts 225 79 

Duties of Attorney-General in relation to con- 
tracts 

Duties of Book Commission 

Duties of contractors relating to prices 

Duties of State Treasurer in relation to cash 
deposits made by bidders and publishers 

Duties of Sub-Commission 

Existing text book laws repealed 

Governor to make proclamation 

Oath of Sub-Commission '. 

Overcharge for books a misdemeanor 

Pay of Sub-Commission; appropriation for 

Penalty for school officers dealing in text 

books 241 85 

School Boards required to furnish free books, 

~ etc 240 84 



219 


76 


235 


83 


238 


84 


218 


75 



226 


79 


224 


79 


229 


81 


227 


80 


223 


78 


239 


84 


231 


82 


222 


77 


236 


83 


237 


83 



220 


76 


221 


76 


30 


16 


118 


43 


211 


73 


120 


43 



175 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

Secretary of State to preserve specimen books 228 81 

State not liable 230 81 

State Superintendent to issue circular of infor- 
mation 234 83 

State Superintendent to submit list of books, 

etc. ; regulations 

Sub-Commission to be appointed 

SCHOOL TRUSTEES— (See Trustees.) 
SEAL— 

State Superintendent to have 

SECOND GRADE CERTIFICATE 

SINKING FUND— 

May be invested in certain bonds; Attorney- 
General to pass on legality, etc 

SPECIAL CERTIFICATES 

SPECIAL SESSION— 

Of County Boards, called by Superintendent 12 53 24 

SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT BONDS— (See Bonds.) 
SPECIAL TAX DISTRICTS— 

(See Districts, Special Tax.) 
STATE BOARD OP EDUCATION— 

Constitution for and personnel 32 16 

Powers and duties of 1-6 33 16-17 

To manage school lands 

To entertain and decide questions and appeals 6 

To remove subordinate officers for cause 4 

To foster higher education 5 

To co-operate with State Superintendent 7 

To fill vacancies in School Boards 

Certain property vested in 

Certain property transferred to 

Regulations and forms prescribed by 7 

Summer Schools in charge of 

Teacher-Training Departments provided for 

STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS— 

Created 

Duty of 

Term of office, salary, statement 

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH— 

To have charge of medical inspection 

Rules to be formulated by 

STATE CERTIFICATE 

STATE INSTITUTIONS— 

See Florida Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 
lege for Negroes. 



34 


17 


28 


15 


33 


17 


33 


17 


33 


17 


68 


30 


37 


18 


38 


18 


28 


15 


327 


114 


35 


17 


134 


48 


135 


48 


139 


49 


264 


93 


265 


93 


121 


43 



27 


14 


31 


16 


28 


15 


CG 


48 



iTi; 

Par. Sec. Pge. 
See Florida School for Deaf and Blind. 

See Florida State College for Women. 

See Universitj' of Florida. 
STATE ONE MILL TAX— 

Apportionment of 7 6 

Levy of '. 6 6 

STATE SCHOOL FUNDS— 

(See Funds, State School.) 
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 
INSTRUCTION— 

An administrative officer 20 8 

Constitutional powers and duties 25 8 

To make report -.- 27 S 

Duties to be prescribed by law 2 5 

Term of office — 2 5 

Member of State Board of Education 3 5 

Secretary State Board of Education 3 5 

Given general oversight of schools 

Residence and office 

Special duties - 1-8 

To issue certificates on examination 

To issue various other certificates. Sec. 122, 
Page 44, and - 128 46 

To make nominations for vacancies On School 
Boards - 

To nominate Rural School Inspectors 

To revoke certificates — 

To inspect Institutions of Higher Learning 

STATE TREASURER— (See Treasurer.) 
SUB-COMMISSION, SCHOOL BOOK— 

To be appointed 

Duties of - - . 

Oath of -- 

Pay of, appropriation for — 

SUBSTITUTE CERTIFICATES 

SUMMER SCHOOLS— 

Appropriation for 

Board created to name teachers 

Board of Control to include amount necessary, 
etc 

Credit for work performed by students 

Established; location 

In charge of State Board; sessions 

Open to all teachers; qualifications of teachers.. 



68 


30 


167 


57 


138 


49 


29 


15 


221 


76 


223 


78 


22-2 


77 


237 


83 


128 


46 


332 


115 


329 


114 


334 


115 


330 


115 


326 


114 


327 


114 


328 


114 



331 


115 


333 


115 


108 


40 


53 


23 


105 


39 


108 


40 


109 


41 


151 


53 


23 


133 


22 


133 



151 


53 


108 


40 


•108 


40 



177 

m, , Par. Sec. 

Teachers attending entitled to extension on 

certificates 

Warrants for cost of 

SUPERVISOR, school- 
To supervise schools and report 1 

How appointed 3 

Superintendent to select and confer with 5 

Special duties of 

Superseded by Trustees 

Supervisor or Trustees to be notified by 

teacher of suspension of pupil 5 

A position of oversight, not control , 

How governed 

SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION— 

Duty of, relative to special tax school districts.. 175 60 

SUSPENSION— 

Of pupils by teacher 5 

Supervisor to review 3 

To be reported to County Superintendent 3 

T 

TAX ASSESSORS— 

To assess millage ordered by County Board 13 53 24 

To furnish board with amounts assessed on 

special tax school districts 183 63 

TAX, CAPITATION (OR POLL) — 

Part of County School Fund..... 

•Tax Collector to furnish list of polls 

TAX COLLECTOR— 

Must collect taxes assessed 13 

Shall receive only current funds for taxes 

TAX, .COUNTY SCHOOL— 

Three to ten mills .'. § q 

TAX, DISTRICT SCHOOL— 

Not more than three mills 10 6 

Five mills additional for bonds I7 7 

TAX, STATE ONE MILL— 

Constitutional levy g g 

Apportionment among counties, basis of 7 g 

TEACHERS— 

Miiist file health certificates 108 

Attendance of children in private school 287 101 

Attending Summer Schools, extension, etc 

Board to name teachers of Summer Schools 329 114 

12— S. Laws 



9 


6 


298 


105 


53 


' 24 


8 


10 



ITS 

Par. ><ec. Pge. 

Insulting teachers in pupils' presence 302 106 

Qualifications in Summer Schools 32S 114 

Regulations prescribed for by State Board of 

Education 133 

Duties and powers 1-7 151 53 

Exempt from jury and military duty 153 54 

Failure of to instruct in evils of alcoholics and 

narcotics 94 35 

Forfeiture of pay in certain cases 156 55 

Mother's Day; duties of teachers to observe.... 152 54 

Must hold valid certificate 26 133 

Report 157 55 

Temporary absence of, how filled 154 54 

To keep accurate record and report weekly 289 101 

Unlawful for white teachers to teach negro 

school, etc 23 13 

When absence of exceeds three days 155 54 

TEACHERS' HEALTH CERTIFICATES 108 

TEACHER-TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOLS— 

Regulations for 139 

TEMPORARY CERTIFICATES "... 115 42 

TEXT BOOK COMMISSION. (See Book Com.) 
TEXT BOOK LAW. (See School Text Book Law) 

THIRD GRADE CERTIFICATE 117 43 

Form of 144 

TITLE TO SCHOOL PROPERTY— 

State, vested in State Board 347 120 

County, vested in County Board . 44 20 

TREASURER, STATE— 

Duty of 7 10 

To keep separate fees derived from teachers' 
examinations; disbursements: annual appro- 
priation 140 49 

To receive and disburse certain funds 41 19 

TRUSTEES— 

Constitutional provision for 10 6 

Election of 170 58 

Term of office 170 58 

Succeed supervisor 178 61 

General duties of 1-3 108 40 

To make itemized estimate 181 62 

Removal of 178 61 

Vacancies how filled 178 61 

May nominate teachers... 179 61 

County Board may reject nomination 179 61 



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Par. Sec. Pgc 

Shall have right to direct funds 180 62 

Trustees not to contract with themselves 185 63 

To be a corporation 186 64 

County Boards to approve all debts 186 64 

Form of ballot for election of Trustees 188 64 

Other regulations governing 22-25 133 

UNIFORM SYSTEM OF PUBLIC FREE 
SCHOOLS— 

Provided for i 5 

Established and maintained, mandatory 1 9 

u 

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA— — 

Admission of students 3-11 108 

Annual appropriation 315 110 

Assistants of Museum Director 321 112 

Certain books to be furnished 314 110 

Created 310 108 

Departments of 312 109 

Director of Museum to make reports 320 112 

Functions of Museum 317 111 

Museum established at 316 111 

Museum under control of Directors 318 111 

Qualifications of students for admission 313 110 

V 

VACANCIES— 

On County Boards, how filled 68 30 

On Boards of Trustees, how filled 178 61 

In schools, when County Supt. may fill 155 54 

VACATION, SCHOOL 6 10 

VISITS— 

State Superintendent to visit 29 15 

County Superintendents must visit schools 2 105 38 

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 12&, 

ELEVEN— INDEX— SCHOOL LAWS 

VOTE— 

For establishing Special Tax District 173 60 

For issuing Special Tax District bonds 199 68 

Constitutional reference to 10 6 

VOTERS" QUALIFICATIONS— 

For Special Tax District elections 176 60 

For bond elections 199 68 



Sec. 


Pge. 


65 


29 


333 


115 


58 


27 


62 


28 


60 


28 


61 


28 



180 
W 

WARRANTS— Par. 

County Board may invest in — 

For cost of Summer Schools - 

Interest-bearing coupon 

Negotiable - .-- 

Pay at depository 

Proceeds from sale of, etc ..: 

WARRANTS, SCHOOL— 

Presentation of 55 26 

WHITES AND BLACKS— 

Separate schools for....- 12 7 

WHO PERMITTED TO TEACH— 

No teacher without valid certificate 26 133 

Y 

YEARS OF INSTRUCTION— (See Grades.) 
YEAR- (See School Year.) 



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